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The City without Jews (1924)

1924 · Silent film · 87 min · dir. H.K. Breslauer

  • Drama

Synopsis

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…

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Details

Director
H.K. Breslauer
Writer
Ida Jenbach
Studio
H. K. Breslauer-Film
Released
1924-07-25
Original title
Die Stadt ohne Juden
Running time
87 minutes

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