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13/10/1934 Drama, History, Romance 1h 45m
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Overview

A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th-century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg. Süss works himself out of the ghetto and into a position of power with the help of an evil duke.

  1. Lothar Mendes

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Conrad Veidt

    Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer

  2. Benita Hume

    Marie Auguste

  3. Frank Vosper

    Duke Karl Alexander

  4. Cedric Hardwicke

    Rabbi Gabriel

  5. Gerald du Maurier

    Weissensee

  6. Paul Graetz

    Landauer

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-13
Conrad Veldt is at the top of his game in this adaptation of Feuchtwanger's eponymous play published in the middle of WWI. Oddly enough, he didn't much care for it and it's exposure was short lived until picked up by Lothar Mendez almost twenty years later as a vehicle for this most enigmatic of actors. The story is simple enough. Veidt is a clever, ambitious man - not just for himself, but for his Jewish community in the feudal German duchy of Würtemburg. His task is made slightly easier by the fact that the hereditary dukes were little better than in-bred dolts, and soon he has the pretty n...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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