DramaHistoryRomance

Jew Süss

Name: Jew Süss
Director: Lothar Mendes
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Released: 1934-10-13
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Benita Hume, Frank Vosper, Cedric Hardwicke, Gerald du Maurier

October 13, 1934

1h 45m

TMDB5.7· 7

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.