Overview
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.
DirectorLothar Mendes
ProducersMichael Balcon
ScreenplayDorothy Farnum, A.R. Rawlinson
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LanguageEnglish
Production companiesGaumont-British Picture Corporation
