The Curse (1924 film)

The Curse
Directed by Robert Land
Produced by Robert Land
Written by Walter Reisch
Ernst Weizmann
Starring Lilian Harvey
Oscar Beregi
Albert Heine
Ferdinand Bonn
Cinematography Nicolas Farkas
Production
company
Land-Film
Release dates
28 February 1925 (Austria)
Country Austria
Language Silent
German intertitles

The Curse (German:Der Fluch) is a 1924 Austrian drama film directed by Robert Land and starring Lilian Harvey, Oscar Beregi and Albert Heine.

The film marked the screen debut of Lilian Harvey who would go on to become one of the top stars at the German box office during the late Weimar and early Nazi eras. Harvey was in Vienna at the time because she was appearing in a stage revue show,[1]

Synopsis

A young Jewish woman in an Eastern European shtetl struggles to reconcile her aspirations with her duty to her family. As her lifestyle grows wilder, her mother is shocked by her immoral behaviour and commits suicide by drowning - repeating "the curse" which has haunted the family for centuries.[2]

Cast

References

  1. Bock & Bergfelder p.186
  2. Prawer p.21

Bibliography

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