Süss, the Jew (1940)
September 24, 1940Release Date

Plot.
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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)

Veit Harlan
Director / Writer

Wolfgang Schleif
Editor

Lion Feuchtwanger
Novel

Wolfgang Zeller
Original Music Composer

Wilhelm Hauff
Short Story

Wolfgang Eberhard Möller
Writer

Ludwig Metzger
Writer

Friedrich Karl von Puttkamer
Editor

Ludwig Hornsteiner
Costume Design

Karl Vollbrecht
Production Design

Otto Hunte
Production Design

Otto Lehmann
Line Producer

Bruno Mondi
Director of Photography

Otto Wollmann

Bernhard Goetzke

Walter Bechmann

Otto Klopsch

Franz Klebusch

Richard Ludwig

Armin Münch

Ernst Stimmel

Hans Eysenhardt

Franz Eschle

Edmund Pouch

Ingeborg Albert

Arthur Reinhardt

Valy Arnheim

Edgar Nollet

Georg Guertler
Media.

Details.
Release DateSeptember 24, 1940
Original NameJud Süß
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
Budget$800,000
Box Office$2,530,185
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
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.
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