Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
7 audience votes
Key crew
- Lothar MendesDirector
- Bretton ByrdOriginal Music Composer
- Jack BeaverOriginal Music Composer
- Charles WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
- John GreenwoodOriginal Music Composer
- Dorothy FarnumScreenplay
- A.R. RawlinsonScreenplay
Cast
- Conrad VeidtJosef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
- Benita HumeMarie Auguste
- Frank VosperDuke Karl Alexander
- Cedric HardwickeRabbi Gabriel
- Gerald du MaurierWeissensee
- Paul GraetzLandauer
Stills
Themes
based on novel or bookantisemitism