VF
Venice Film Festival
Received rave reviews and earned the top award at the film festival in 1940.
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Directed byVeit Harlan
Budget2.081 million Reichsmarks
Critical Consensus
5.0
IMDb
4.3
TMDB
The 1940 Nazi propaganda film Jud Süß was a major commercial success within Germany but is now widely condemned as a notorious work of hate and antisemitism.
The Cast
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
Trivia
The film is considered one of the most antisemitic of all time and was seen by over 20 million people in Germany.
Werner Krauss, known as 'the man with a thousand faces,' played five of the six Jewish speaking parts.
Director Veit Harlan was the only filmmaker of the Third Reich to stand trial for crimes against humanity.
Paradoxically, many participants in the film had Jewish relatives or were pre-Nazi left-leaning intellectuals.
Heinrich Himmler urged members of the SS and police to watch the film to further the Nazi agenda.
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Lion Feuchtwanger
Was horrified and incensed by the distortion of his work, calling the film a 'shameful work' (Schandwerk).
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