The Burgomeister (1935)
56m
Running Time
August 29, 1935Release Date
Plot.
A burgomeister and family man is haunted by a crime he committed 15 years before: robbing a wealthy Jewish Polish seed merchant to pay off his mortgage debt.
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Cast & Crew.
Harry Southwell
Mathias / Director / Producer
Muriel Meredith
Catherine
Janet Johnson
Annette
Ross Vernon
Christian
Stan Tolhurst
The Polish Jew
Gabriel Toyne
Fritz
Harold Meade
Father Walter
Bertie Wright
Heinrich
Leslie Victor
Hans
Lily Molloy
Sozel
Judy Eccles
Baby Annette
Paul Furness
Hypnotist
Alexandre Chatrian
Theatre Play
Emile Erckmann
Theatre Play
Denzil Batchelor
Writer
Isador Goodman
Music
Details.
Wiki.
The Burgomeister is a 1935 Australian film directed by Harry Southwell based on the 1867 play Le juif polonais (aka The Bells) by Erckmann-Chatrian, adapted into English in 1871 by Leopold Lewis, previously filmed a number of times. The Burgomeister is considered a 'substantially lost' film, with only one sequence surviving.
Southwell had performed the play in Europe, and had previously filmed it in Belgium (1925) as Le juif polonais (The Bells). This silent film version was shown in Australia in 1928.