Judith Trachtenberg (film)

Judith Trachtenberg is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Leontine Kühnberg, Ernst Deutsch and Leonhard Haskel. It was based on the 1890 novel of the same title by Karl Emil Franzos.[1] In 1932 it was released in the United States, re-edited to include sound, under the alternative title A Daughter of Her People. It was one of a significant cycle of films in the early 1920s which dealt with issues of Jewish cultural assimilation including Love One Another (1922), The Ancient Law (1923) and The City Without Jews (1924). The film's plotline of a Jewish woman becoming involved with an aristocratic figure follows what is known as an "Esterka story".[2]

Judith Trachtenberg
Directed byHenrik Galeen
Written byKarl Emil Franzos (novel)
Franz Schulz
StarringLeontine Kühnberg
Ernst Deutsch
Leonhard Haskel
Paul Otto
CinematographyGotthardt Wolf
Production
company
Neos-Film
Distributed byDoktram-Film
Release date
1920
CountryGermany
LanguageSilent
German intertitles

Synopsis

In the nineteenth century, a young Jewish woman living in the part of Poland controlled by Austria, meets an Austrian Count at a ball held by one of her father's business associates. After he rescues her from the unwanted attentions of a Polish army officer, they fall in love. She falls pregnant, and they live together in a Common-law marriage. Her family are horrified by the match and make her an outcast. Distraught by this, she ultimately commits suicide by drowning herself in a lake.

Cast

References
  1. Prawer p.63
  2. Prawer p.63

Bibliography
  • Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.


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