The Affair Blum (1949)
Directed by Erich Engels / Erich Engel
Genres - Drama, Historical Film, Thriller |
Sub-Genres - Crime Drama, Detective Film, Docudrama, Police Detective Film |
Run Time - 109 min. |
Countries - Germany, United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
The German The Affair Blum is based on a true 1926 incident that helped sow the seeds of anti-Semitism that Hitler so effectively exploited. A poverty-stricken wretch kills a man during a robbery. But the German authorities aren't interested in "small potatoes"; they've already made up their minds that a prominent Jewish industrialist, Dr. Jacob Blum (Claus Becker), is the guilty party. Once they determine the true identity of the killer, the police use the culprit to build up a circumstantial-evidence case against the industrialist. Only the intervention of an honest cop saves the innocent Blum from falling victim to blind prejudice.
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Jewish, murder-suspect, murder-trial, Nazi, war, alibi, bigotry, bureaucracy, detective, false-accusation, Germany, investigation, Judaism, justice, killing, murder, official, police, stranded, traveling, vampire, victim, web, zombie
