Jew Suss: Rise and Fall

Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (German title: Jud Süss – Film ohne Gewissen) is a 2010 German historical drama film directed by Oskar Roehler, dramatising the creative process behind the antisemitic Nazi propaganda film Jud Süß (1940). It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Jew Suss: Rise and Fall
Film poster
Directed byOskar Roehler
Written byOskar Roehler
Klaus Richter
Michael Esser
Friedrich Knilli
Franz Novotny
Produced byFranz Novotny
Markus Zimmer
StarringTobias Moretti
Moritz Bleibtreu
Martina Gedeck
CinematographyCarl-Friedrich Koschnick
Edited byBettina Böhler
Music byMartin Todsharow
Release date
  • 18 February 2010 (2010-02-18) (Berlinale)
  • 23 September 2010 (2010-09-23) (Germany)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

In Germany, the film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and, mainly because of the controversial subject matter, received mixed reviews. Nevertheless, the German critics lauded the actor Tobias Moretti in his role as Ferdinand Marian.[2] In 2011, cinematograph Carl-Friedrich Koschnick received the Austrian Romy award for cinematography.

Plot

When Ferdinand Marian's career was on the rise at the end of the 1930s, the Austrian actor was personally selected by the Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels for the title role in the feature film Jud Süß. Ferdibnard at first rejects the offer, but then succumbs to the temptation of a recognizing career. While filming under director Veit Harlan , Marian begins to change, which leads to an argument with his Jewish wife Anna. Jud Süß premiered at the Venice Film Festival at the beginning of September 1940 and opens in German cinemas a few days later. There the anti-Semitic propaganda film reached an audience of millions, and from then on Marian was identified as the role of the threatening-looking Jewish tax officer Joseph Süss Oppenheimer and receive a lot of deals to act in other films

Slowly the film actor Ferdinand ( Ferdl ) Marian , who is now part of the German Reich, gets to know the threat behind the National Socialists , which drove many of his professional colleagues into exile. The Jewish actor Wilhelm Adolf Deutscher, hidden in Marian's garden house and disguised as a gardener, is betrayed to his friend Lutz by the domestic servant Britta, with whom Marian apparently had an affair. Marian then takes solace drinking alcohol and cheats on his wife with the Czech female named Vlasta. Joseph Goebbels then deported Anna in order to gain control of Marian. But this cause an opposite effect.

As the Second World War is coming to an end with the end of the Nazi regime , Marian was not allowed to resume acting because of his involvement in Jud Suess and the nazis . At the same time, he has to watch many of his professional colleagues going into hiding and is confronted by the American military including the Jud-Süß director Veit Harlan standing in front of the press burns some of the copies of Jud Süß claiming that he was forced . Marian then encounters his friend Wilhelm who survived from the nazi concentration camp who tells Marian about his wife's death and to further fall in despair he discovered that Vlasta is having an affair with a US soldier leading to a mental breakdown and drive his car on the road resulting in his death

Cast

References
  1. "60th Berlin International Film Festival: Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  2. "Tobias Moretti is brilliant in his multi-faceted role as Ferdinand Marian". Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
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