The Rothschilds (1940)
"Die Rothschilds" (original title)

Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

Director:

Erich Waschneck

Writers:

Gerhard T. Buchholz (book), T. Buck (novel),

Stars:

Carl Kuhlmann, Herbert Hübner, Albert Florath

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Carl Kuhlmann	...	Nathan Rothschild
Herbert Hübner	...	Turner
Albert Florath	...	Bearing
Hans Stiebner	...	Bronstein
Walter Franck	...	Herries
Waldemar Leitgeb	...	Wellington
Hans Leibelt	...	König Ludwig XVIII.
Erich Ponto	...	Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Bernhard Minetti	...	Fouché
Albert Lippert	...	James Rothschild
Herbert Wilk	...	George Crayton
Hilde Weissner	...	Sylvia Turner
Ludwig Linkmann	...	Leib Herch
Bruno Hübner	...	Ruthworth
Rudolf Carl	...	Rubiner

Storyline

Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

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Plot Keywords:

aristocracy | propaganda film | nazi propaganda | capitalist conspiracy | anti semitism | 

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Genres:

Biography | Drama

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Details

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

17 July 1940 (Germany)

Also Known As:

The Rothschilds' Shares in Waterloo

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universum Film (UFA)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited into Germany Awake! (1968)

User Reviews

Antisemitic propaganda

This is one of Nazi Germany's most vicious antisemitic films. It was released in 1940, the most antisemitic year movie-wise throughout the entire Nazi era with Veit Harlan's Jud Süss and Fritz Hippler's and Joseph Goebbels' Der ewige Jude being released later the same year. Die Rothschilds is not nearly as notorious as the other two films but still the antisemitic message is crystal clear. In the final episode the protagonist, Nathan Rothschild, draws lines on an imaginary map of Europe from London to Vienna to Napoli to Frankfurt to Jerusalem to mark cities under Jewish control having thereby drawn the Star of David. As in Jud Süss the film concludes with a written text intended for the German audience of 1940. The text explains that the descendants of the Rothschild family are now on the run away from Europe as refugees (thanks to National Socialism) but that the struggle against Britain continues. Today we know that the Holocaust was initiated in 1941.