Mr. Emmanuel
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Mr. Emmanuel, a British citizen who himself is a former refugee from Russia, sympathises with the young man. After the lad attempts to take his life, Mr. Emmanuel promises to travel to Germany to find out what he can about Bruno's mother. Once he arrives in Berlin, Emmanuel takes lodging at a boarding-house.
Mr. Emmanuel: Directed by Harold French. With Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilla, Peter Mullins. An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what's really going on.
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- Drama
- Harold French
- 1944-10-02
Mr. Emmanuel (Felix Aylmer) is an elderly Jewish man living in England who's taken with the sad story of a young German refugee who has been separated from his...
- Drama
- Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilla
- Harold French
One of the earliest fiction films to depict the oppression and persecution in Nazi Germany, Mr. Emmanuel follows an elderly Jewish man (Felix Aylmer) who leaves England to embark on an ill-advised mission to Nazi Germany to search for the mother of a German child refugee.
Harold French's Mr. Emmanuel (1944) holds the distinction of being the first and only wartime British commercial feature film to focus on Nazi antisemitism. 1 Adapted from Louis Golding's novel of the same title, the movie chronicles the perilous search by Isaac Emmanuel, an elderly Brit-ish Jewish man, for the German mother of a half-Jewish Ger...
- Lawrence Baron
Mr. Emmanuel ★★½ 1944. An elderly Jewish widower leaves his English home in 1935 in quest of the mother of a German refugee boy, and is subjected to shocking treatment in Germany. 97m/B VHS .
Mr. Emmanuel. 1944. Directed by Harold French. It’s Dramatic Dynamite! An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide.
