FORGER
Symposium
This film, produced in German-Russian coproduction but banned by the German censorship, carries a foreboding warning of the imminent race mania as early as 1928. Professor Zange’s research on passing on inheritance provokes aristocrats, nationalistic corps-students, and clerics. They fight Zange with forgeries of his research results, with counterfeiting, and finally murder his wife. In Germany the German scientist has no chance left. He emigrates to the Soviet Union, where national education commissioner Anatolij Lunačarskij himself praises the unprejudiced, progressive spirit of Soviet science. The film was mainly shot in Munich, but also in Berlin and Leipzig.
Salamandra / Falschmünzer
USSR, DEU 1928 / 85 min
Director: Grigorij Rošal
- Screenplay: Anatolij Lunačarskij,Georgij Grebner
- Cinematographer: Louis Forestier
- Cast: Bernhard Goetzke,Natalja Rosenel,Elsa Temary,Nikolaj Chmeljov,Sergej Komarov,Vladimir Fogel
- Production Company: Mežrabpomfilm - Moskau,Prometheus-Film-Verleih und Vertrieb GmbH - Berlin
This film, produced in German-Russian coproduction but banned by the German censorship, carries a foreboding warning of the imminent race mania as early as 1928. Professor Zange’s research on passing on inheritance provokes aristocrats, nationalistic corps-students, and clerics. They fight Zange with forgeries of his research results, with counterfeiting, and finally murder his wife. In Germany the German scientist has no chance left. He emigrates to the Soviet Union, where national education commissioner Anatolij Lunačarskij himself praises the unprejudiced, progressive spirit of Soviet science. The film was mainly shot in Munich, but also in Berlin and Leipzig.
- Screenplay: Anatolij Lunačarskij,Georgij Grebner
- Cinematographer: Louis Forestier
- Cast: Bernhard Goetzke,Natalja Rosenel,Elsa Temary,Nikolaj Chmeljov,Sergej Komarov,Vladimir Fogel
- Production Company: Mežrabpomfilm - Moskau,Prometheus-Film-Verleih und Vertrieb GmbH - Berlin