Jew Suss (1934)
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17% of users liked it
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Jew Suss was a well-worn stage drama based on an old novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger. The story involves an enterprising Jewish businessman (Conrad Veidt) who gains power and influence in the European community of Wurttemburg. He does this to help his people, who have suffered persecution under the… More Jew Suss was a well-worn stage drama based on an old novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger. The story involves an enterprising Jewish businessman (Conrad Veidt) who gains power and influence in the European community of Wurttemburg. He does this to help his people, who have suffered persecution under the Gentile burgomeisters. To his horror, Suss discovers that he is actually not Jewish at all. The question: Was his own suffering on behalf of the community's genuine Jews worth it, and will he continue to act in their best interest? Filmed as a protest against the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany, Jew Suss (released in the U.S. as Power) was far from subtle, but its heart was in the right place. There would be a reprehensible 1940 German remake of Jew Suss, this time filmed under the aegis of Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels, wherein the story was perverted into an anti-Jewish tract and Suss was portrayed as a drooling rapist! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Veit Harlan
- Written By
- Veit Harlan, Ludwig Metzger
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1940 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve
Too many talking heads, not enough archival film, but mandatory viewing for anyone interested in the Nazi era or in the history of directing.
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Cast
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Conrad Veidt
as Joseph "Jew Suss" Oppenheimer
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Benita Hume
as Marie Auguste
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Pamela Ostrer
as Naomi Oppenheimer
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Gerald du Maurier
as Wessensee
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Frank Vosper
as Duke Karl Alexander
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Cedric Hardwicke
as Rabbi Gabriel
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Mary Clare
as Countess Wurben
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Eva Moore
as Jantje
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Paul Graetz
as Landauer
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Haidee Wright
as Michele
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Joan Maude
as Magdalen Sibylle
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Percy Parsons
as Pflug
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James Raglan
as Lord Suffolk
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Francis L. Sullivan
as Remchingen
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Dennis Hoey
as Dieterle
- Randle Ayrton
- Michael Brantford
- Frank Cellier
- Jane Cornell
- Selma Vaz Dias
- Helen Ferrers
- Henry Hallatt
- Henry Hewitt
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Sam Livesey
as Harprecht
- Glennis Lorimer
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Gibb McLaughlin
as Pancorgo
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George Merritt
as Bilfinger
- Kynaston Reeves
- Robert Rietty
- Marcelle Rogez
- Percy Walsh
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Campbell Gullan
as Thurne-Taxis
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Hay Plumb
as Pfaeffle
- Victor Fairley
- Robert Nainby
- Diana Cotton
- Grete Hansen
- Ingeborg Albert
- Valy Arnheim
- Franz Arzdorf
- Annette Bach
- Walter Bechmann
