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Jew Süss

5.7(7)19341h 45m1

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.

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Released
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Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • antisemitism

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical13 Oct 1934
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical27 Jan 1936

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Jew Süss was released on 13 October 1934.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/13/2022

    7/10

    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 i…

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