The Eternal Jew
(1940)
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The Eternal Jew
(1940)
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Curt Bois | ... |
Himself
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| Charles Chaplin | ... |
Himself (1931)
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| Albert Einstein | ... |
Einstein
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| Adolf Hitler | ... |
Himself - Speaking at Reichstagssitzung
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Fritz Kortner | ... |
Dimitri Karamasoff
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| Peter Lorre | ... |
Hans Beckert
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| Ernst Lubitsch | ... |
Himself
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Rosa Luxemburg | ... |
Herself
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Mona Maris | ... |
Herself
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Kurt Gerron | ... |
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Emil Ludwig | ... |
Himself
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Richard Oswald | ... |
Himself
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Max Reinhardt | ... |
Himself
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Richard Tauber | ... |
Himself
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Rosa Valetti | ... |
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The Jews of Poland (invaded by Germany in 1939) are depicted as filthy, evil, corrupt, and intent on world domination. Street scenes are shown prejudicially, along with clips from Jewish cinema of the day and photos of Jewish celebrities, while the narrator "explains" the Jewish problem. The climax and resolution of the film is Hitler's 1939 announcement that the Jewish race will meet its "annihilation" (Vernichtung). Written by Jamie McCarthy <jamie@mccarthy.org>
Looking away from the content, and seen strictly as a movie whose purpose is propaganda and instilling hatred and dislike of jews, this movie did it's job very well.
If you see this movie as a document of the general atmosphere at that time (60 years ago, already dislike of jews in NS-Germany, lower educational level among the public in general, etc.) you can easily imagine how effective it was.
As an illustration of the atmosphere in prewar, nazi-Germany for the historically interested, this movie is a good document.