Power (1934)
- Starring:
- Conrad Veidt, Benita Hume, (more)
- Director(s):
- Lothar Mendes
Synopsis of Power
Jew Suss was a well-worn stage drama based on an old novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger. The story involves an enterprising Jewish businessman (Conrad Veidt) who gains power and influence in the European community of Wurttemburg. He does this to help his people, who have suffered persecution under the Gentile burgomeisters. To his horror, Suss discovers that he is actually not Jewish at all. The question: Was his own suffering on behalf of the community's genuine Jews worth it, and will he continue to act in their best interest? Filmed as a protest against the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany, Jew Suss (released in the U.S. as Power) was far from subtle, but its heart was in the right place. There would be a reprehensible 1940 German remake of Jew Suss, this time filmed under the aegis of Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels, wherein the story was perverted into an anti-Jewish tract and Suss was portrayed as a drooling rapist! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Power
- Conrad Veidt - Joseph "Jew Suss" Oppenheimer
- Pamela Ostrer - Naomi Oppenheimer
- Gerald du Maurier - Wessensee
- Mary Clare - Countess Wurben
- Paul Graetz - Landauer
- Joan Maude - Magdalen Sibylle
- James Raglan - Lord Suffolk
- Dennis Hoey - Dieterle
- Campbell Gullan - Thurne-Taxis
- Marcelle Rogez
- Kynaston Reeves
- Gibb McLaughlin - Pancorgo
- Sam Livesey - Harprecht
- Diana Cotton
- Victor Fairley
- Henry Hewitt
- Selma Vaz Dias
- Henry Hallatt
- Frank Cellier
- Benita Hume - Marie Auguste
- Frank Vosper - Duke Karl Alexander
- Cedric Hardwicke - Rabbi Gabriel
- Eva Moore - Jantje
- Haidee Wright - Michele
- Percy Parsons - Pflug
- Francis L. Sullivan - Remchingen
- Randle Ayrton
- Percy Walsh
- Robert Rietty
- George Merritt - Bilfinger
- Glennis Lorimer
- Grete Hansen
- Robert Nainby
- Hay Plumb - Pfaeffle
- Michael Brantford
- Helen Ferrers
- Jane Cornell
- Director(s):
- Lothar Mendes
- Writer(s):
- Dorothy Farnum, A.R. Rawlinson
- Producer(s):
- Michael Balcon
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