Jew Süss (1934 film)

{{Other uses|Jud Süß (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Jew Süss

| image = Jew Süss 1934 UK poster.jpg

| caption = 1934 UK cinema poster

| director = Lothar Mendes

| based_on = {{based on|Jud Süß (novel)|Lion Feuchtwanger}}

| screenplay = {{plainlist|

• Dorothy Farnum
• A. R. Rawlinson}}

| starring = Conrad Veidt

| producer = Michael Balcon

| distributor = Gaumont-British

| released = {{Film date|df=y|1934|10|04|UK & USArticle in The Times, 6 October 1934, page 10: "Jew Süss" Reception in New York – found in The Times Digital Archive 2013-11-03|1934|11|01|US wide}}

| runtime = 105 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| music = {{plainlist|

• Jack Beaver
• Bretton Byrd
• Charles Williams}}

| budget = £120,000D., C. "An Important Experiment", The Sunday Times [London, England] 7 Oct. 1934: 7. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.

}}

Jew Süss is a 1934 British historical romantic drama film based on Lion Feuchtwanger's 1925 novel Jud Süß, about Joseph Süß Oppenheimer. Directed by Lothar Mendes, the film stars German actor Conrad Veidt in the role of Oppenheimer. The screenplay was written by Dorothy Farnum and Arthur Rawlinson.{{cite book|author=Ian Wallace|title=Feuchtwanger and film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=awhkoV-hFqIC&pg=PA153|accessdate=2 December 2011|date=1 January 2009|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-3-03911-954-7|page=153}}

Unlike the Nazis' antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß (1940), the British film was intended to be sympathetic to Jews, and is generally considered to be a faithful adaptation of Feuchtwanger's novel.{{cite book|last1=Sadoul|first1=Georges|authorlink1=Georges Sadoul|last2=Morris|first2=Peter|title=Dictionary of films|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryoffilm00sado_1|url-access=registration|accessdate=2 December 2011|date=1 September 1972|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-02152-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryoffilm00sado_1/page/170 170]}} It was hoped the historical analogy, condemning antisemitism in 1730, would be a successful means of evading the ban by the British censors on political topics in films.{{cite news|last=Clark|first=Anthony|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/570808/index.html|title=Jew Süss (1934)|work=BFI Screenonline|date=2003–14|access-date=3 April 2020}}

The latter film with the same title, produced in Nazi Germany, is considered by some to be an antisemitic response to Mendes' philosemitic film.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11400905 | title=Controversial Nazi film released in Germany | work=BBC News | date=23 September 2010 | accessdate=7 December 2012}}