Jew Süss

(1934)

★ 5.7 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Drama, History, Romance

Year: 1934

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Lothar Mendes

Cast: Конрад Фейдт, Benita Hume, Frank Vosper, Cedric Hardwicke, Gerald du Maurier, Paul Graetz

Plot

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.