Today's online find...
The film is based on Lion Feuchtwanger's novel, also entitled Jew Süss*.
I've always had kind of a thing for Mr. Veidt. I found the movie on Youtube.
While it was running I hit 'pause,' then took my snipping thingie, and got the above image.
* Jew Süss is my all-time favorite novel. It was later published under the title Power, I guess because many people somehow conflated the Nazi version of the movie (which came out in 1940 at the behest of Joseph Goebbels) as somehow being Nazi positive..
Fun fact: Joseph Süss Oppenheimer was a real person, a 'court Jew,' who were financiers and money lenders to the rich and/or royal crowd. Google him!
If you'd like to see Mr. Veidt in living color, check out the movie The Thief of Bagdad (1940), where he plays Jaffar, i.e. the bad guy.
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