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Jew Süss (1934)
Directed by Lothar Mendes
Drama, History, Romance · 1h 45m
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
Benita Hume
Frank Vosper
Cedric Hardwicke
Gerald du Maurier
Paul Graetz
Crew
- Director
- Lothar Mendes
- Screenplay
- Dorothy Farnum, A.R. Rawlinson
- Novel
- Lion Feuchtwanger
- Director of Photography
- Roy Kellino
- Original Music Composer
- Jack Beaver, Bretton Byrd, Charles Williams, John Greenwood
- Producer
- Michael Balcon
Details
- Release date
- 1934-10-13
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama, History, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Gaumont-British Picture Corporation