L'ebreo errante (1948)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Vittorio Gassman	...	Mathieu Nahum / Mathieu Blumenthal
	Valentina Cortese	...	Esther
	Inga Gort	...	Sarah Nahum
	Noëlle Norman	...	Elena aka Hélène
	Harry Feist	...	Hans
	Petr Sharov	...	Prof. Epstein (as Pietro Sharoff)
	Hans Hinrich	...	Dr. Albert Schuster (as Giovanni Heinrich)
	Cesare Polacco
	Egisto Olivieri	...	Resistance fighter
	Renato Malavasi
	Pina Piovani
	Attilio Torelli
	Domenico Serra
	Dody Ristori
	Ivo Karavany	...	Ernst

Storyline

Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman yoke by means of revolt. He incites the people against Jesus and prevents his own wife, a true Christian in her heart, from offering the Redeemer a drink of water at his crucifixion on Golgotha. For this act Matthew is condemned to wander eternally on the earth with every rest denied to him, even that of the grave. We go forward to Paris in 1940. Matthew, miraculously still alive, is now the young banker Matthew Blumenthal. Rich and powerful, it would be easy to escape from Nazi persecution, but he chooses not to do so. He wishes to share the lot of his fellow Jews and, with many others, is despatched to Germany and detained in a concentration camp where everyone is brutally ill-treated. Being young, robust and full of energy, he does not resign himself to the situation... Written by Jim Marshall  

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