JIFF 2018: The City Without Jews (1924)

This film is also showing at our sister cinema,

The Story

In the Republic of Utopia, because of the bad economic crisis ailing the nation, the Jews are made the scapegoats for the economic and social ills affecting the population; therefore, the government decides to expel them. Leo Strakosch is among the exiled. He is engaged to Counsellor's Linder's daughter. He gets into the Republic, in a clandestine way, to show to the society the wrongness of their anti-semitic prejudice. Bettauer's novel differs essentially from the film version. "Vienna" was named "Utopia". Even a happy ending was provided.

Rating

CTC

Country

AT

Language

German

Cast

Johannes Riemann, Hans Moser, Karl Tema, Anny Miletty

Director

H.K. Breslauer