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Australian Women's Weekly, 13 July 1935, p.24
form y separately published work icon The Burgomeister single work   film/TV   horror  
Alternative title: Flames of Conscience; Hypnotised
Adaptation of The Polish Jew Erckmann-Chatrian , 1867 single work drama
Issue Details: First known date: 1935... 1935 The Burgomeister
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Like the 1911 film The Bells, The Burgomeister is an adaptation of the nineteenth-century stage melodrama by French writers Erckmann-Chatrian. An inn-keeper murders a Jewish guest for his money but, years later, his guilt forces him into hallucinations of his victim's sleighbells and a dream state in which he is tried for and convicted of the crime.

Like The Bells, The Burgomeister is a 'lost film': in the case of the latter film, the National Film and Sound Archive knows of a single extant sequence.

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Last amended 26 Aug 2014 09:27:20
Harry Southwell
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  • Alsace,
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    France,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1815
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