Jud Süß (1940)
September 24, 1940Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Ferdinand Marian
Joseph Süß Oppenheimer
Werner Krauß
Rabbi Loew
Heinrich George
Karl Alexander, Herzog von Württemberg
Kristina Söderbaum
Dorothea Sturm
Eugen Klöpfer
Landschaftskonsulent Sturm
Hilde von Stolz
Herzogin von Württemberg
Albert Florath
Obrist Röder
Malte Jaeger
Aktuar Karl Faber
Theodor Loos
von Remchingen
Jakob Tiedtke
Konsistorialrat
Walter Werner
Herr Fiebelkorn
Erna Morena
Frau des Konsistorialrats
Else Elster
Luziana
Heinrich Schroth
Herr von Neuffer
Reinhold Bernt
Folterknecht
Otto F. Henning
Vorsitzender des Gerichts
Emil Heß
Schmied Hans Bogner
Charlotte Schultz
Frau Fiebelkorn
Anny Seitz
Minchen Fiebelkorn
Ursula Deinert
Primaballerina
Erich Dunskus
Meister der Schmiedezunft
Horst Lommer
Offizier, der die Ankunft des Kuriers meldet
Wolfgang Staudte
Freund und Vertrauter Fabers
Eduard Wenck
Hausbesitzer
Ilse Buhl
Friederike Fiebelkorn
Käthe Jöken-König
Frau Bogner
Hannelore Benzinger
Hausmädchen bei Sturm
Annette Bach
Mädchen bei der Ankunft des Herzogs
Franz Arzdorf
Offizier der Leibwache
Fred Becker
Ballettmeister beim Ball des Herzogs
Louis Brody
Schwarzer Diener des Herzogs
Wilhelm Egger-Sell
Mann der Landstände bei der Sondersitzung
Oskar Höcker
Fahrer der verunglückten Kutsche
Karl Iban
Henker
Willy Kaiser-Heyl
Mann der Landstände bei der Sondersitzung
Paul Mederow
Richter Ratner
Hans Meyer-Hanno
Stadtbeamter an der Zollgrenze
Hellmuth Passarge
Soldat beim Prozeß gegen Oppenheimer
Josef Peterhans
Kontrollierender Offizier an der Stadtgrenze Stuttgarts
Friedrich Petermann
Mann der Landstände bei der Sondersitzung
Walter Tarrach
Folterknecht
Max Vierlinger
Mann, der Oppenheimer nach dem Gespräch mit Faber zurückhält
Hanns Waschatko
Mann der Landstände in Fürsprache beim Herzog
Lucien Blondeau
Lévy (voice)
Colette Broïdo
Dorothée (voice)
Jean Darcante
Faber (voice)
Richard Francœur
Süß Oppenheimer (voice)
Maurice Lagrenée
Le Rabbin (voice)
Marcel Raine
Röder (voice)
Rognoni
Le Duc (voice)
Henri Valbel
Sturm (voice)
Lion Feuchtwanger
Novel
Veit Harlan
Director / Writer
Wolfgang Schleif
Editor
Wolfgang Zeller
Original Music Composer
Wolfgang Eberhard Möller
Writer
Bruno Mondi
Director of Photography
Friedrich Karl von Puttkamer
Editor
Otto Hunte
Production Design
Karl Vollbrecht
Production Design
Ludwig Hornsteiner
Costume Design
Wilhelm Hauff
Short Story
Ludwig Metzger
Writer
Otto Lehmann
Line Producer
Otto Klopsch
Erich Lange
Bernhard Goetzke
Franz Klebusch
Richard Ludwig
Armin Münch
Edgar Nollet
Ernst Stimmel
Hans Eysenhardt
Franz Eschle
Otz Tollen
Ingeborg Albert
Otto Wollmann
Edmund Pouch
Georg Guertler
Irmgard Voelker
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 24, 1940
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
Budget$800,000
Box Office$2,530,185
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This Movie Is About.
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Jud Süß (pronounced [juːt zyːs], 'Süss, the Jew') is a 1940 Nazi German historical drama/propaganda film produced by Terra Film at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. Considered one of the most antisemitic films of all time, the film was directed by Veit Harlan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eberhard Wolfgang Möller and Ludwig Metzger. It stars Ferdinand Marian and Kristina Söderbaum with Werner Krauss and Heinrich George in key supporting roles.
The film has been characterized as "one of the most notorious and successful pieces of antisemitic film propaganda produced in Nazi Germany." It was a great success in Germany, and was seen by 20 million people. Although its budget of 2 million Reichsmarks was considered high for films of that era, the box office receipts of 6.5 million Reichsmarks made it a financial success. Heinrich Himmler urged members of the SS and police to see it.
After the war, some of the leading cast members were brought to trial as part of the denazification process. They generally defended their participation in the film on the grounds that they had only done so under duress. Susan Tegel, author of Nazis and the Cinema, characterizes their postwar attempts to distance themselves from the film as "crass and self-serving"; she argues that their motives for accepting the roles seem to have been more driven by opportunistic ambition than by antisemitism. Harlan was the only major movie director of the Third Reich to stand trial for crimes against humanity. After three trials, he was given a light sentence because he convinced the courts that the antisemitic content of the film had been dictated by Goebbels and that Harlan had worked to moderate the antisemitism. Eventually, Harlan was reinstated as a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany and made nine more films. He remained a controversial figure and the target of protests.
Together with Die Rothschilds and Der ewige Jude, both released in 1940, the film remains one of the most frequently discussed examples of the use of film to further the Nazi antisemitic agenda. In the 2000s, two documentary films and a drama were released that explore the history and impact of the film.