God's punishment

Movie
German title	God's punishment
Original title	Kara Boża
Country of production	Russian Empire
original language	Yiddish
Publishing year	1913
length	3 acts, 900 meters, at 16 fps around 50 minutes
Rod
Director	Abraham Izaak Kamiński , ; H. Fiszer
script	Zalmen Libin , ; Jakob Gordin
production	Henryk Finkelsztein for Kosmofilm
camera	Stanislaw Sebel
occupation
	Samuel Landau : Rabbi Gindman, ; Adela's husband; Regina Kamińska : Adela, the "Rebbezen"; Ida Kamińska; Thea Izraelis: Aniuta; Helena Gotlib: Sutenerka (matchmaker); Mark Majerson; Aron Polakov; Herman Wajsman; Jakub Libert;

The punishment of God (original title Gots shtrof or Gots sztrof , Polish title Kara Boża , alternatively Przekleństwo losu ) is a Yiddish silent film from Russian Poland from 1913, which Abraham Izaak Kamiński , assisted by H. Fiszer , made based on a literary model.

Samuel Landau plays the leading role of Rabbi Gindman . His wife Adela is played by Regina Kamińska. The actors were recruited from the Yiddish theater of Abraham Isaak Kamiński (1867–1918) in Warsaw.

action

Adela, a Rebbezen (Yiddish: wife of a rabbi) who has been seduced, leaves her unloved husband frivolously and is punished for this with the loss of her two children.

One day when Adela recognizes her daughter in a prostitute on the street, the young woman commits suicide so as not to complicate her mother's life even further.

Production notes

Gots sztrof was made by the cosmofilm of the Warsaw producer Henryk Finkelsztein . Stanisław Sebel was at the camera . The three-act, approximately 900-meter-long film, which was premiered in Warsaw in 1913, was also released in Poland under the title Przekleństwo losu and was also released under the title Gottes Strafe .

reception

According to filmpolski.pl, the film has not been preserved.

literature

Amaury Du Closel: Choked voices: "Degenerate Music" in the Third Reich . Translated by Ulrike Kolb. Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2010. ISBN 9783205782926 .
Marek Haltof: Polish National Cinema . Berghahn Series. Illustrated edition. Published by Berghahn Books, 2002. ISBN 9781571812766 .
Sheila Skaff: The law of the looking glass: cinema in Poland, 1896-1939 . Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 2008. ISBN 9780821417843 .

Web links

God's punishment in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Gots sztrof at filmweb.pl
Kara Boża at the film database filmpolski.pl

Illustrations

Photo by Ida Kaminska, labeled "Ida Kaminska: God's Punishment"
Photo by Helena Gotlib

Individual evidence

↑ filmpolski.pl only gives H. Fiszer as Reżyseria , Skaff (p. 193) only gives Kamiński
↑ the authorship is not clear: filmpolski.pl and Haltof (p. 4) name the Yiddish playwright Jakob Gordin as the author ; IMDb and filmweb.pl name Zalman Libin (1872–1955); a drama God's Schtroff by this author is loud Amaury You Closel (p 108 n. 284) in 1910 in New York at the Hebrew Publishing Company published
↑ cf. Skaff p. 43
↑ German about “Curse of Fate”
↑ God's punishment see page filmpolski.pl (Polish)
↑ “ Film never zachował się do dnia dzisiejszego ”.

[1] ski.pl only gives H. Fiszer as Reżyseria , Skaff (p. 193) only gives Kamiński

[2] the authorship is not clear: filmpolski.pl and Haltof (p. 4) name the Yiddish playwright Jakob Gordin as the author ; IMDb and filmweb.pl name Zalman Libin (1872–1955); a drama God's Schtroff by this author is loud Amaury You Closel (p 108 n. 284) in 1910 in New York at the Hebrew Publishing Company published

[3] . Skaff p. 43

[4] German about “Curse of Fate”

[5] God's punishment see page filmpolski.pl (Polish)

[6] “ Film never zachował się do dnia dzisiejszego ”.