The Eternal Jew (1940)

4.7/10 • 62 min • Documentary

Overview

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.

Cast

Mona Maris

Self (archive footage)

Curt Bois

Self (archive footage)

Fritz Kortner

Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)

Peter Lorre

Hans Beckert (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch

Self (archive footage)

Rosa Luxemburg

Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Self (1931) (archive footage)

Kurt Gerron

(archive footage)

Richard Oswald

Self (archive footage)

Max Reinhardt

Self (archive footage)

Richard Tauber

Self (archive footage)

Rosa Valetti

(archive footage)

Harry Giese

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

George Arliss

Mayer Rothschild (archive footage) (uncredited)

Max Pohl

Fedor Karamasoff (archive footage) (uncredited)

Anna Sten

Gruschenka (archive footage) (uncredited)

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