---
title: 'Blum Affair (1948)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Erich Engel'
released: '1948-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 106
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'German Democratic Republic'
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/blum-affair-1948'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040079/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Blum Affair (1948)

1948 · 106 min · Drama · German Democratic Republic, Germany

Original title: Affaire Blum

## Synopsis

Blum Affair is a 1948 East German drama film directed by Erich Engel and starring Hans Christian Blech, Ernst Waldow and Karin Evans. It is based on a real 1926 case in Magdeburg in which a German Jewish industrialist is tried for murder. The film was produced in the future East Germany and produced by DEFA. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and Althoff Studios in the Soviet zone. The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Erich Engel](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-engel)
- **Screenplay:** [Robert A. Stemmle](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-a-stemmle)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Herbert Trantow](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-trantow)
- **Director of Photography:** [Friedl Behn-Grund](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedl-behn-grund), [Karl Plintzner](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-plintzner)
- **Editor:** [Lilian Seng](https://cinepixo.com/people/lilian-seng)

## Cast

- [Emmy Burg](https://cinepixo.com/people/emmy-burg)
- [Reinhard Kolldehoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/reinhard-kolldehoff)
- [Alfred Schieske](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-schieske)
- [Herbert Hübner](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-hubner)
- [Kurt Ehrhardt](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-ehrhardt)
- [Gisela Trowe](https://cinepixo.com/people/gisela-trowe)
- [Arthur Schröder](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-schroder)
- [Lilli Schoenborn](https://cinepixo.com/people/lilli-schoenborn)
- [Gerhard Bienert](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerhard-bienert)
- [Friedrich Maurer](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedrich-maurer)
- [Hans Christian Blech](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-christian-blech)
- [Maly Delschaft](https://cinepixo.com/people/maly-delschaft)
- [Werner Peters](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-peters)
- [Renée Stobrawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/renee-stobrawa)
- [Jean Brahn](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-brahn)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/blum-affair-1948
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