Film
Jew Süss
United Kingdom- Director
- Lothar Mendes
- Year
- 1934
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Lothar Mendes
Written by
A.R. Rawlinson, Dorothy Farnum
Produced by
Michael Balcon
