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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.
Top 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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Rating
5.7/ 10
Release Date
1934-10-13
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
DramaHistoryRomance
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7/10
•6/13/2022Conrad 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...