Jew Süss (1934)

5.7/10 105 min Drama History Romance

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.

Cast

Conrad Veidt

Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer

Benita Hume

Marie Auguste

Frank Vosper

Duke Karl Alexander

Cedric Hardwicke

Rabbi Gabriel

Gerald du Maurier

Weissensee

Paul Graetz

Landauer

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