The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden)

Translated into English by: edNET

THE CITY WITHOUT JEWS Austria, 1924

After "THE CITY WITHOUT JEWS" was presumed missing for decades, ...

...in 1991, Filmarchiv Austria managed to find a fragment of the film at the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam.

In 2005, in Paris, Filmarchiv Austria was able to mount a complete new copy

of the film with the parts that were missing until then, but were recovered.

THE CITY WITHOUT JEWS

based on the novel by Hugo Bettauer

Director Hans Karl Breslauer

Script Ida Jenbach, Hans Karl Breslauer

Camera Hugo von Eywo, Eduard von Borsody

Decoration Julius von Borsody

Actors

Federal chancellor (Bundeskanzler) Eugen Neufeld

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Rat Bernart Hans Moser

Lotte Anny Milety

Leo Strakosch Johannes Riemann

Rat Volbert Ferdinand Mayerhofer

Mrs. Volbert Mizzi Griebl

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Rat Linder Karl Thema

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Alois Carroni-Cohn Hans Effenberger

Kathi Gisela Werbezirk

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Isidor Armin Berg

The Head of the State Church Armin Seydelmann

Editor Dr. Krauss Theodor Weiser

and also...

Music (2017) Olga Neuwirth

THE CITY WITHOUT JEWS

A serious crisis is raging in the Republic of Utopia. The people blame the Jews for this.

DOWN WITH We want work

The dollar rises from minute to minute.

An insane fever of greed has hit speculators.

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"Buy a Dollar for 50,000!"

"I'll give 55,000 for a Dollar!"

People are desperate - their hard-earned money turns into worthless scraps of paper.

"What, more expensive again?"

And while the people are starving ...

... the big speculators celebrate in wild parties.

"We want work, and a salary from which we can live from!"

The Federal Chancellor.

"It is the Jews who are taking our work away!"

In the taverns you hear a variety of opinions.

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Antisemites have found a battle slogan: "Out with the Jews!"

"Get out ... Jews!"

Councilor Volbert is anti-Semitic, even though his daughter married a Jew.

"There he goes against the Jews again."

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Councilor Bernart shares Volbert's opinion.

"Let me tell you that the Jews have to be blamed for all this misery."

"Why precisely the Jews?"

"You will see when they are gone!"

Leo Strakosch and his fiancee, the daughter of the democratic leader, Councilor Linder.

Councilor Linder strives in calming overheated spirits.

"Why blame the Jews? We want to live in peace with each other."

"And I affirm that the Jews are depleting our people."

"Leo, you are Jewish, whatever happens, we stay true to each other."

The next morning.

"Mr. Chancellor, abandon your project! You can't do politics with inhumanity."

"Expelling the Jews is a cruel thing, Eminence, but you have to satisfy the people."

"Christ says: thou shall love your neighbor as thyself!"

"It seems to me that the expulsion of the Jews is the only solution."

We just found out that the government plans to expel the Jews from the country.

"Father, will Leo also have to leave if this law...?"

Kathi, private home cook of director Volbert, harbors a deep love for Isidor.

"Grandpa ... let's play horse."

"Father, you are going to miss the session!"

"Our Father! Our King! Avoid the harsh judgment that they want to impose on us."

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The Jews and Christian journalists' stage.

The doctor. Jakobus Kraus, from the weekly "The Defense".

"I am a friend of the Jews and admirer of their qualities."

"Is that a representative of the Jews?"

"Despite years of repression, they have managed to occupy the first place in the world thanks to their keen intelligence."

"He's right, and that's why we're going to banish them."

"They are in the largest banks in the world!"

"Like your son-in-law, Mr. Carroni!"

"They dominate the industry and they write theater plays."

"We also write theater plays!"

"It's true... with the only difference that they are not represented!"

"Gentlemen! The rose beetle is a very beautiful creature, but the gardener destroys it because he prefers his roses."

"We have to act ... so I propose the expulsion of the Jews."

... including baptized Jews ..."

"... and the children of mixed marriages ..."

"... second generation baptized children will be declared Aryans."

"I am really a Goy!"

"Everyone can take their belongings with them..."

... but, only after declared to the tax authorities, of course."

"I will pay you 800 million immediately if you transfer 600 million from here to Veilchenblub & Butterflock in Paris."

"What a thief, you earn 200 million in no time."

"The Jews have to abandon the country before December 25.

Whoever stays here after, will have to face the most severe sanctions."

"The anti-Semite American, Mr . Huxtable, has granted us a loan of 100 million dollars for this law!"

Extra edition! Expulsion law passed!

"They kick us out like dogs!"

"I won't survive if Leo has to go!"

Bisquit & Bruder Fashion House.

In the pastry shop.

"If my Cohn has to go away, I'll be ruined."

"With us they could make an exception!"

The next morning

"No, I'm not going to Zion!"

"You have made your whole family miserable, you... you..."

"Isidor, I'm going with you to the promised land."

"If I take my own life, it will be your fault!"

"If you expel me now, give me back my 200,000 Krones."

In the synagogue, in the streets and at home, the Jews lament.

The departure of the Sabbath.

The expulsion.

Expelled.