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Original title

Jew Süss

Year

1934

Running time

108 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Lothar Mendes

Screenwriter

A.R. Rawlinson, Dorothy Farnum. Novel: Lion Feuchtwanger

Cast

Music

Jack Beaver, Bretton Byrd, Charles Williams

Cinematography

Roy Kellino, Bernard Knowles (B&W)

Producer

Gaumont British

Genre

Drama | Historical. 18th Century

Synopsis

A Jew seeks political power in order that he may use it to benefit the status of Jewry in an anti-Semitic order of society.

Unlike the 1940 version, the 1934 version is faithful to the Lion Feuchtwanger's 1925 novel and is a condemnation of anti-Semitism, not a justification of it.

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Jew Süss

1934

Lothar Mendes