It's been a long time (nearly two and a half years!) since I last posted about Edith Meinhard, largely due to a lack of new information, but I've been spurred on by recent social media activity to share more items from my collection. I thought I'd follow up on this post with photos from Voruntersuchung, a highly recommended film if you've only seen Edith in Diary of a Lost Girl. In addition to the DVD linked in that post, there is also a Spanish-subtitled version on the Internet Archive. The captions are translations of the snipes found on the back of each photo.
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"The witnesses are waiting to be questioned." Edith is seated on the far left. |
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"Albert Bassermann (examining magistrate) interrogates Charlotte Ander (his daughter)." |
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"The accused before the examining magistrate." |
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"The real killer is caught in the courtroom." |
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"Sound film recording in the streets of Berlin. Under the microphone, Gustav Frohlich and Hans Brausewetter." |
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Page from the Voruntersuchung program, with Edith's Mella Ziehr pictured in a happier time. |
The film has fine performances all around, particularly from Albert Bassermann. This was my introduction to Bassermann, and until I attended a nitrate screening of
The Red Shoes two years ago I had no idea he acted in any English-language films! He's also great in Alfred Hitchcock's
Foreign Correspondent, which now tempts me to rewatch with a giant bowl of popcorn...
1 comment:
Hey I googled Edith Meinhard after I saw her lovely performance in Tagebuch einer Verlorenen and found your blog. Really a tragic little story. Glad to hear from your blog tho that she might have lived through WW2 unlike her wikipedia entry suggests.
Anyway, I just think it's awesome you took the time to find out more about her. Thanks for doing this.
Gerrit
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