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Jew Süss (1934)

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Film details

Featuring

Conrad Veidt Benita Hume Gerald du Maurier
Director

Lothar Mendes
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1934
Genre

Costume drama
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

Power Alternative

Synopsis

The ambitions of a Jew in the eighteenth century who seeks political power in order that he may use it to benefit the status of Jewry in an anti-Semitic order of society.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Josef Süss Oppenheimer
    
    Conrad Veidt
  - Marie Auguste
    
    Benita Hume
  - Weissensee
    
    Gerald du Maurier
  - Karl Alexander
    
    Frank Vosper
  - Rabbi Gabriel
    
    Cedric Hardwicke
  - Landauer
    
    Paul Graetz
  - Naomi
    
    Pamela Kellino
  - Magdalen Sibylle Weissensee
    
    Joan Maude
  - Pflug, the judge
    
    Percy Parsons
  - Lord Suffolk
    
    James Raglan
  - Harprecht
    
    Sam Livesey
  - Dieterle
    
    Dennis Hoey
  - Prince of Thurn & Taxis
    
    Campbell Gullan
  - Jantje
    
    Eva Moore
  - Pfaeffle
    
    Hay Plumb
  - Michele
    
    Haidee Wright
  - Pancorgo
    
    Gibb McLaughlin
  - council member
    
    Francis L. Sullivan
  - nobleman
    
    Frank Cellier
  - Countess Wurben
    
    Mary Clare
  - 2nd judge
    
    Kynaston Reeves
  - Helen Ferrers
  - Henry Hewitt
  - Hill-mitchelson
  - Robert Rietti
Credits
- Direction:
  - Directed by
    
    Lothar Mendes
  Production:
  - Presents
    
    Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
  - Controlled throughout the United Kingdom and Irish Free State by
    
    Gaumont British Distributors Ltd.
  - Michael Balcon
  - Graham Cutts
  - Shepherd's Bush Studios
  Writing:
  - Scenario & Dialogue
    
    A.R. Rawlinson
  - Dorothy Farnum
  - By [Original Novel]
    
    Lion Feuchtwanger
  Photography:
  - Camera
    
    Roy Kellino
  - Lighting
    
    Bernard Knowles
  Editing:
  - Film Editor
    
    Otto Ludwig
  Design:
  - Alfred Junge
  Costumes:
  - Costumes & Period Advisor
    
    Herbert Norris
  Music:
  - Musical Director
    
    Louis Levy
  Sound:
  - [Sound] Recordist
    
    William Salter
  - Recorded on
    
    British Acoustic Film

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