The City without Jews

6.4(27)19241h 27m

Drama

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.

Director

H.K. Breslauer

Cast

Johannes Riemann

Leo Strakosch

Hans Moser

Rat Bernart

Karl Tema

Rat Linder

Anny Miletty

Tochter Lotte

Eugen Neufeld

Bundeskanzler

Ferdinand Mayerhofer

Rat Volbert

Mizi Griebl

seine Frau

Hans Effenberger

Alois Carroni

Gisela Werbisek

Köchin Kathi (as Gisela Werbezirk)

Armin Berg

Kommiss Isidor

Sigi Hofer

Moritz

Armin Seydelmann

Oberhaupt der Staatskirche

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

It is somewhat ironically apposite to watch this now in the UK where we are still having politically charged conversations about anti-Semitism. This silent film is a wonderfully satiric rendition of the Bettauer story about the citizens of a city who fear that it is steadily being taken over by the Jews. Via a series of regulations and eventually law the Jewish are persecuted then ultimately banis...