Directing
Albrecht Viktor Blum
Born 1888-01-01 · Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Acting credits
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Mignon
1922
A method actress likes living out the roles she is playing in real life. To prepare for her new play, she enters the criminal underworld and ends up being implicated in a burglary of a Duke who is one of her suitors. The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film received a generally positive reception from critics, although some were doubtful about the blending of farce and tragedy.
Das Spiel mit dem Feuer
1921
5.2Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.
Vanina
1922
Behind the camera
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Sprengt die Ketten!
1930
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Des Kaisers Kulis
1930
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Des Kaisers Kulis
1930
Documentary about the "Kampfgemeinschaft für Rote Sporteinheit", a communist workers' sports association in the final phase of the Weimar Republic.
Rot Sport marschiert
1930
The film was produced as a compilation film. Blum reported in “Film-Kurier“ (5.11.1928): "It will be assembled from excerpts of partly unpublished Ukrainian films. […] Some American footage has also been used. To get material as impressive as possible, a number of films, 0-60, have been viewed." Based on ideas by Dziga Vertov, and largely assembled from the last reel of his film 'The Eleventh Year', this compilation presents an explicit critique of the very technology that Vertov sought to praise, stressing the dark side of industrialization—hands mangled in workplace accidents, train wrecks, coffins—and connects to a particularly German concern with the negative effects of technology stretching from the Romantics to Heidegger, Horkheimer, and Adorno in the twentieth century.
In the Shadow of the Machine
1928
Documentary about social division in Berlin.
Im Schatten der Weltstadt
1930
Documentary about social division in Berlin.
Im Schatten der Weltstadt
1930
9.0An ad for left-wing newspaper Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung.
Tatsachen!
1930
Artful documentary about the use of our hands.
Hände. Eine Studie
1928
A poetic collage of the various forms taken by the element of water. The film explores water’s vital importance and its never-ending motion. Lyrical scenes of wild mountain landscapes alternate with footage of people in the streets of a flooded city and images showing the useful power of water.
The Water Cycle
1929
