Jud Süß - film without a conscience

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Movie
Original title Jud Süß -
film without a conscience
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Oskar Roehler
script Klaus Richter ,
Oskar Roehler,
Franz Novotny
production Franz Novotny,
Markus Zimmer
music Martin Todsharow
camera Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
cut Bettina Boehler
occupation

Jud Suess - Film Without a Conscience is a film biography from 2010 by the German director Oskar Roehler . The leading roles are cast with Tobias Moretti and Martina Gedeck as well as Moritz Bleibtreu , Justus von Dohnányi and Armin Rohde .

The film, which deals with the making of the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß , celebrated its world premiere on February 18, 2010 as part of the 60th Berlin Film Festival . The regular theatrical release in Germany was on September 23, 2010, in Austria one day later.

action

When Ferdinand Marian's career was on the upswing in the late 1930s, the Austrian actor was personally selected by the Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels for the title role in the feature film Jud Suss . The womanizer initially rejects the offer, but then succumbs to the temptation of a fast career. While filming under director Veit Harlan , Marian begins to change, which leads to an argument with his Jewish wife Anna. Jud Süß premiered at the Venice Film Festival at the beginning of September 1940 and opened a few days later in German cinemas. There, the achieved anti-Semitic propaganda film an audience of millions, and Marian is now on the role of the menacing Jewish financial officer Joseph Suss Oppenheimer identified and receives more film roles.

Little by little, the film actor Ferdinand ( Ferdl ) Marian , who is now established in the German Reich, gets to know the threat behind the National Socialists , which drove many of his professional colleagues into exile. The Jewish actor Wilhelm Adolf Deutscher, hidden in Marian's garden house and disguised as a gardener, is betrayed to her friend Lutz by the domestic servant Britta, with whom Marian apparently had an affair. Marian then takes refuge in alcohol and cheats on his wife with the Czech Vlasta. Joseph Goebbels then deported Anna in order to regain control of the actor. But this has the opposite effect.

Marian survived the Second World War , but he was not allowed to resume acting because of his involvement in Jud Süss . At the same time, he has to watch how many of his professional colleagues are wrongly rehabilitated, including the Jud-Süß director Veit Harlan. Later the concentration camp survivor Wilhelm Adolf Deutscher Marian informs about the death of his wife Anna. The discovery that his mistress Vlasta is cheating on him with a US soldier leads to Marian's breakdown. He gets in his car and commits suicide.

History of origin

The script of the film, whose original working title Jud Süß! - Sympathy for the Devil (or Jud Suss - Sympathy for the Devil ) was, developed by Klaus Richter and based on the Marian biography Ich war Jud Süss by Friedrich Knilli . The script, which was developed by Michael W. Esser and the Dramaworks agency , was already available at the end of 2006 and was later to be edited by Oskar Roehler and Franz Novotny . The commitment of Tobias Moretti , Martina Gedeck and Armin Rohde was announced at the end of 2008. Moretti had in the three-part television drama in 2005 Speer und Er the role of Adolf Hitler dressed. At the beginning of July 2009 it was announced that Moritz Bleibtreu would take over the role of Joseph Goebbels . Roehler had prevailed among other things against his own producers when casting the German actor, whom he revered as one of the greatest German-speaking actors. “He's a brilliant comedian, he's got incredible tragedy, he's a perfect impersonator. Look at him for three minutes as Goebbels - and you have completely forgotten who is playing that, ”said Roehler.

The original film may not be distributed in Germany and public screenings are only allowed with accompanying commentary and under strict conditions of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation . Roehler therefore had numerous scenes from Jud Suess re-shot . “There are a few scenes that we have recreated one-to-one. We even copied others digitally into the original, ” says the film director. One of the digitally edited recordings is the final scene by Jud Süß , in which the main actor Tobias Moretti as the title character, trapped in a wire cage, begs for his life.

For the shooting of the film, which was funded by the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen , 40 days were estimated in the MMC studios in Hürth-Efferen near Cologne , Munich and Venice . From July 23, 2009, filming continued in Vienna , where the old grain exchange was converted into the Berlin Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda .

Dealing with historical facts

In reality, Ferdinand Marian was married to the actress Maria Byk (bourgeois Albertine Haschkowetz, née Annemarie Albertine Böck), otherwise called Anna Marian in the film . Accordingly, the role also deviates from the historical figure: Byk was not a “ half-Jewish ”, but was first married to the Jewish director Julius Gellner and, as a result of this relationship, the mother of a “half-Jewish” daughter. In contrast to the film, Byk was not murdered by the Nazis in the concentration camp, but died in 1949 - three years after Ferdinand Marian. In the 1948 trial against Veit Harlan , she testified in his favor.

In the film, Ferdinand Marian commits suicide by steering his car into a tree at high speed. Marian actually died in his broken car, but it is unclear whether he committed suicide or lost control of his car because of drunkenness or other reasons.

Harlan also points out at one point in the film that Feuchtwanger “wrote the novel ”. However, this was not known to him at the time. At another point, even during the production of Jud Suess, occurs shortly the figure of Fritz Hippler on. He is presented with the words "He made the film 'The Eternal Jew'". However, the eternal Jew came into the cinemas much later than Jud Suss .

The figure of the Jewish actor Wilhelm Adolf Deutscher, who is a friend of Marian's in the film and with whom he is said to have stood on stage in the Deutsches Theater in Othello (German as Othello), is also not realistic . That Marian embodied the Iago is historically correct. The film character Deutscher brings together - symbolically also in the combination of the three parts of the name Wilhelm , Adolf and Deutscher - different partners of Marian and different aspects of "Germanness". In the 1939 production of Othello in the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, Ewald Balser played Othello.

reception

Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, Tobias Moretti, Justus von Dohnányi and Oskar Röhler (from left to right) at the premiere of the film at the Berlinale 2010

The media scientist and Jud-Süß expert Friedrich Knilli accused the film of “inaccuracies and forgeries” which contributed to the “creation of legends”. Roehler responded to Knilli's criticism and criticism in the Kulturzeit program on 3sat . a. with “Who the fuck is Knilli?”.

At the premiere at the Berlinale 2010 , the film earned some boos in the press screening.

In the culture magazine aspekte of the ZDF the film was described as "undecided, overdrawn melodrama". Moritz Bleibtreu's portrayal of Goebbels also received criticism (“a blast , like all Nazis in this film, by the way”).

There was also a review by Spiegel Online . It is said that the film functions “miserably as a melodrama of a seduced person”, delivers “criticized falsifications of Marian's biography” and “instead of the historically accurate analysis there is only the colportage: Heissa, the capital city was so wild!”

On critic.de Thorsten Funke describes the film as “Strangely empty”: “It's a film like a cover story in Spiegel . Accurate in the details, at the same time plagued with a strange fascination with its subject. "

The Stuttgarter Zeitung, on the other hand, praised: “Tobias Moretti in the role of Ferdinand Marian is sensational (…) actually a worthy contender for the actor's award on Saturday can be seen here. Otherwise the cast is superb. (...) Thirty years ago Rainer Werner Fassbinder shot his melodramas on the bitter German history. Oskar Roehler is a worthy successor. "

The Münchner Abendzeitung also found positive words: “But Roehler, who is always willing to take risks, did not shoot a biopic or a history documentary. This is about cinema - juicy, plump, wholeheartedly entertaining cinema. A real Roehler film with a terrific team of actors (above all Tobias Moretti and Moritz Bleibtreu), perfidious humor, hearty sarcasm and emotional density in the quiet, dangerous scenes. "

According to the Leipziger Volkszeitung , which reviewed the film launch: “A scandalous film ? Hardly, but the best German film of the year. "

Cinema found: "An oppressive, brilliantly played study about the seductiveness of the individual in a dictatorial society (...) absolutely worth seeing: a gripping history lesson."

The TV Spielfilm judged "tasteless and annoying: Roehler's downfall", the film was "cineastically and tastefully completely unsuccessful". Excerpts from the film review: “Roehler certainly does not sympathize with crude Nazi propaganda. So it is all the worse that the director of Elementary Particles and Die Untouchbaren uses every, but also every Nazi cliché about Jews in his film. (...) The otherwise wonderful Moritz Bleibtreu smears a Goebbels parody that shakes you. (...) Roehler fails all along the line. "

The news portal news.de particularly praised the acting. Excerpts from the review: “If you want to enjoy good German acting, this film is recommended. (...) But Tobias Moretti outshines them all. (...) Moretti pulls out all the stops and shows in this film what a great actor he is. "

Awards

The film premiered in the competition at the 60th Berlinale . It was the third time that director Oskar Roehler competed for the Golden Bear after 2003 and 2006 .

The film was also invited to the Festival of German Film in Ludwigshafen in June 2010. Moritz Bleibtreu received the award for acting.

When the Austrian Film Prize was awarded for the first time in 2011, nominations in the categories of Best Male Actor (Moritz Bleibtreu and Tobias Moretti), Best Mask and Best Production Design followed. In the same year costumes and masks were nominated for the German Film Prize.

In 2011, cameraman Carl-Friedrich Koschnick received a Romy for the camera work .

literature

  • Friedrich Knilli : I was Jud Suss. The story of the film star Ferdinand Marian. With a foreword by Alphons Silbermann . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89487-340-X .
  • Jud Süß - Film without a conscience by Oskar Roehler (2010). In: Jörg Koch: Joseph Suess Oppenheimer, called "Jud Suess". Its history in literature, film and theater. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24652-6 , pp. 127-135.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ Katharina Dockhorn: Roehler tackles “Jud Süß” anew. In: Die Welt , November 22, 2006, p. 27.
  7. ↑ Feuchtwanger relaunched - A popular author from the Weimar period is back in the limelight. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , December 22, 2008, p. OCKU122 (accessed on February 14, 2010 via Wiso praxis )
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  9. ↑ Anna-Maria Wallner: Short days of shooting in Vienna. In: Die Presse , August 21, 2009 (accessed on February 13, 2010 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  10. ^ Goebbels in Taborstrasse. In: Der Standard , August 20, 2009, p. 8.
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  14. ↑ The Eternal Jew. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Cerha, Ursula (2004): Ewald Balser (1898–1978). Theater that touches, seduces and changes. Böhlau. P. 152
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  17. ↑ Are you allowed or not? - Dresden cinema calendar. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Peter Beddies: Berlinale 2010: Boos for "Jud Süß - Film Without Conscience" . ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Rheinische Post . February 19, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
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  20. ↑ Christian Buß : Film about the Third Reich: The Nazi in my bed . Spiegel Online , September 21, 2010.
  21. ↑ Thorsten Funke: Jud Suss - film without a conscience . critic.de, February 19, 2010.
  22. ↑ Tim Schleider: Roehler film at the Berlinale: “I want art, not propaganda!” . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . February 19, 2010.
  23. ↑ evening newspaper. February 19, 2010.
  24. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung. September 23, 2010.
  25. ^ Cinema. September 2010.
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  27. ↑ Katharina Bott: "Jud Süß": The Nazis' hate speech ( memento of the original from September 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: news.de . September 21, 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.news.de