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Jud Süß

Year:

1941

Duration:

98 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

5.2

Director:

Veit Harlan

Awards:

1 nomination

Details

Country: Germany

Release Date: 1941-01-23

Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany

Cast

Actor

Character

Heinrich George

Jud Süß

Ferdinand Marian

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer

Kristina Söderbaum

Dorothea Sturm

Werner Krauss

Rabbi Loew

Eugen Klöpfer

Landschaftskonsulent Sturm

Albert Florath

Obrist Röder

Malte Jaeger

Aktuarius Faber

Theodor Loos

Franz Joseph Freiherr von Remchingen

Hilde von Stolz

Herzogin von Württemberg

Else Elster

Luziana

Walter Werner

Herr Fiebelkorn

Jakob Tiedtke

Konsistorialrat

Otto F. Henning

Vorsitzender des Gerichts (as Otto Henning)

Emil Heß

Schmied Hans Bogner

Charlotte Schultz

Frau Fiebelkorn

Anny Seitz

Minchen Fiebelkorn

Erna Morena

Frau des Konsistorialrats

Ursula Deinert

Primaballerina

Erich Dunskus

Meister der Schmiedezunft

Heinrich Schroth

Herr von Neuffer

Bernhard Goetzke

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

Ingeborg Albert

Annette Bach

Mädchen bei der Ankunft des Herzogs

Irmgard Voelker

Valy Arnheim

Franz Arzdorf

Offizier der Leibwache

Walter Bechmann

Fred Becker

Ballettmeister beim Ball des Herzogs

Reinhold Bernt

Folterknecht

Louis Brody

Schwarzer Diener des Herzogs

Wilhelm Egger-Sell

Mann der Landstände bei der Sondersitzung

Franz Eschle

Hans Eysenhardt

Georg Guertler

Oskar Höcker

Fahrer der verunglückten Kutsche

Karl Iban

Henker

Willy Kaiser-Heyl

Mann der Landstände bei der Sondersitzung

Franz Klebusch

Otto Klopsch

Erich Lange

Richard Ludwig

Paul Mederow

Richter Ratner

Hans Meyer-Hanno

Stadtbeamter an der Zollgrenze

Armin Münch

Edgar Nollet

Hellmuth Passarge

Soldat beim Prozeß gegen Oppenheimer

Josef Peterhans

Kontrollierender Offizier an der Stadtgrenze Stuttgarts

Friedrich Petermann

Mann der Landstände bei der Sondersitzung

Edmund Pouch

Arthur Reinhardt

Ernst Stimmel

Walter Tarrach

Folterknecht

Otz Tollen

Max Vierlinger

Mann, der Oppenheimer nach dem Gespräch mit Faber zurückhält

Hanns Waschatko

Mann der Landstände in Fürsprache beim Herzog

Otto Wollmann

Lucien Blondeau

Lévy (voice)

Colette Broïdo

Dorothée (voice)

Jean Darcante

Faber (voice)

Richard Francoeur

Süß Oppenheimer

Maurice Lagrenée

Le Rabbin (voice)

Marcel Raine

Röder (voice)

Rognoni

Le Duc (voice)

Henri Valbel

Sturm (voice)

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Trivia

The film was seen by 20 million Germans during its original theatrical run. An additional 20 million people in other European countries are estimated to have seen it. It was also shown to all SS inductees at the request of Heinrich Himmler, a policy that was implemented two weeks after the film's premiere.

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Leading actor Ferdinand Marian first refused to play Oppenheimer, but was forced to relent when Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels threatened the safety of his stepson, who was half Jewish.

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While the film is only partially based on Lion Feuchtwanger's 1925 historical novel "Jud Süß", as well as Wilhelm Hauff's 1827 novella, neither the film nor the written works correspond to the actual historic sources regarding the actual Joseph Süß Oppenheimer as still accessible at the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg.

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Goofs

Unlike portrayed in the movie Oppenheimer was adjudged only for his financial deeds, not for having sexual intercourse with a Christian woman. Furthermore it is historically proofed that Oppenheimer had never any sexual relationship to a non-Jewish woman, which however was an antisemitic cliché years before the situation.

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The film tells that Joseph Süß Oppenheimer lived in the Jew Alley (Judengasse) in the ghetto in Frankfurt before he moved to Württemberg. Actually he lived in Württemberg, since his birth in Heidelberg. Even his first meeting with Karl Alexander, before he became Duke of Württemberg was in Bad Wildbad, a place in Württemberg

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In real life the conflict between Karl Alexander von Württemberg and the territorial estates were performed without any interferes from Oppenheimer, unlike in the movie where he was actually opening this conflict himself.

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Quotes

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer: I thought Württemberg was rich?

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