Die Hauptdarsteller und ihre Farben:
Ferdinand Marian Joseph Goebbels
Anna Marian Veit Harlan
I hate the Moor.
He holds me well.
The better shall my purpose work on him. But how? How, how, how?
Cassio's a proper man.
What's that? That is disgusting. Sit down, Mr Hippler.
This, well this is degenerate. Don't worry.
This play will never be put on stage anyway.
Made for seduction.(Shakespeare: "Framed to make women false".)
and the Moor... ... is of a free and open nature
And will as tenderly be led by the nose, as asses are.
I have't. It is engender'd.
Hell and Night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
Marian appears like a Jew.
Too bad that the Fuehrer doesn't like Shakespeare.
This would increase his racial hatred incalculably.
She shall not live.
Let her rot. I will chop her into messes.
Cuckold me! O, 'tis foul in her.
With mine officer!
Yes, the one you wanted to deflower, now she deflowered him.
Get me some poison, Iago, this night!
Do it not with poison.
Do it...
Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed.
Even the bed she hath contaminated.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
Good, Iago.
Bravo!
This cannot be! This must be a mistake.
Tomorrow will be premiere! - You won't play anymore...
Mister Deutscher! I'm sorry, Mr Engel.
No more Jews on German stages.
The play won't be put on stage. Goodbye, gentlemen.
What?
Mister Marian! Just wanted to shake hands with you personally.
Great! You were amazing! Congratulations!
I will tell Gründgens about it. You're a match for his Mephisto!
Absolutely! And evil is always much more interesting than good, right?
Iago is an upstart, a parvenü.
I know it from my homeland Austria. He knows it from his homeland Austria!
Don't let the Fuehrer hear it, Marian!
Alright, Marian, I take my leave. You'll hear from us soon!
Mister Marian.
(singing) ... still und starr ruht der See. (Stars o'er the lake shine so bright)
Weihnachtlich glänzet der Wald,(The forest reflects holy light)
freue dich, 's Christkind kommt bald. (The Christchild is coming tonight.)
In den Herzen ist's warm, (Hearts of mankind are warm)
still schweigt Kummer und Harm.(Tonight, all sorrow is gone)
Sorge des Lebens verhallt, (From heaven there shines a great light)
freue dich, 's Christkind kommt bald. (The Christchild is coming tonight.)
Bald ist heilige Nacht, (Soon will be holy night)
Chor der Engel erwacht, (Choirs of angels are singing)
hör nur wie lieblich es schallt, (Hear the churchbells are ringing)
freue dich, 's Christkind kommt bald. (The Christchild is born on this night)
Merry Christmas, my darling! Thanks for the violin, daddy!
Oh, it's from your mom.
But this, this is from me.
Good evening, Merry Christmas. (both) Merry Christmas!
Yes...
(sings) Heute, Kinder, wird's was geben, (Today, children, just wait!)
heute werden wir uns freuen. (Today we'll rejoice!)
(Ferdinand and Anna singing) Welch ein Jubel, welch ein Leben, (What joy, what life)
wird in diesem Hause sein. (There'll be in our house!)
Such I always wished for.
Reach into the bag.
Oh, well this...
Wait, Britta, you'll drink one more!
Cognac! Four stars! From whom?
You won't believe it, from Goebbels!
Why does he give you cognac?
He didn't tell, he was very secretive.
Where do I have...
Oh, that I forgot completely.
Ferdl!
My mother. Thanks, Ferdl.
Britta!
Yes...
Would you mind if I walked over to Willi Deutscher and ask him,
if he wants to come over to us anyway? Oh, no, of course not. Sure.
I'll be right back.
? Music from record player?
Oh my!
Good night.
Sleep well, hm?
Good night, my darling.
What is it? Maria?
Give your mother a kiss! You should care more for daddy!
But darling, I do care for him! But not enough!
"Speak you should not." "This..."
"This greasy Jew won't throw himself at my daughter." Harlan!
This dialogue is much too flat! Why doesn't he say simply and confidently:
"My daugher won't give birth to Jewish children." Period!
That's almost as I would have written it. Why didn't you, then?
I just begin to rewrite the script. Harlan, I need the film tomorrow!
Yesterday, more likely, now, that we are at war. But I want an artistic film!
No cheap propaganda!
Now, write, write!
We want to fight and work.
And then speak with every Prussian general:
"Christ, if you do not want to help us,
we just pray you, do also not help our cursed enemies!"
In this sense, I wish everyone of us a happy,
successful and victorious New Year!
Now, it's enough. 20 seconds more. Britta, the champagne!
? music from the radio?
Nine...
Six, five...
(all) Four, three, two, one...
Happy New Year!
(singing) ... we stand together as brothers.
From the Maas to the Memel,
From the Etsch to the Belt,
Germany, Germany above all,
above all in the world!
Great speech, Mr. Goebbels! Thank you, I was very satisfied.
To 1940! And may God punish England!
(all) May God punish England!
Child, there's alcohol in it! Oh, Magda, come on, just for once.
Helga is our eldest. Thank you, daddy!
Paul, not even the Fuehrer drinks alcohol! Nah...
But you! My daughter!
A ready tongue! Where does she have it from, I wonder?
You know what, I'll call Marian now. Come with me!
In case you don't know, I love this woman!
phone rings
(sings) The wind... Answer, Britta! Say:
"No admission during the show!"
Anna keeps singing
Mr Marian, Dr. Goebbels, in person!
Hush, be quiet, for once. Anna!
Marian. I don't want to miss the opportunity
to personally wish you and your wife a Happy New Year!
Thank you, that's very nice of you, Mr. Goebbels, the same to you.
For you it can only be a good year. Veit Harlan is here, he greets you.
He'll approach you soon, I hope you won't accept something else!
No, no. But Engel, Erich Engel, also has a film project with me.
Oh, there's no hurry! Yes, but it would be the role of my life.
A suburban Casanova... I beg your pardon, my dear Marian.
What is a suburban Casanova compared to a role which will make you famous
throughout Europe, oh what do I say, all over the world! See you soon, then!
See you soon.
I shall be famous, all over the world!
Daddy gets a leading role! - Which film, which role?
He didn't tell. Veit Harlan is director.
It's your fault. Your staging!
He liked my Iago well.
I'll accept only if you play there as well! You better don't tell him,
that I'm an actress. You're an actress, madam?
That's just between the two of us, ok?
We'll do the Casanova afterwards.
To you as well, my friend, I wish, as to all of us,
a wonderful, happy New Year.
I wanted to say goodbye for today!
May I present. Lutz, my friend.
Allow me to wish a happy New Year!
Thank you. Dismissed! You've had a bit too much champagne, it seems!
If not now, when? Exactly!
Ferdl!
With this role I should become famous? Infamous, more likely.
Slowly, now. The title alone: "Jud Süß".
The subject has its base in history. Already Wilhelm Hauff,
teller of fairy tales, has worked on it. Joseph Süß Oppeneimer,
moving up the ladder as a banker in the 18th century,
executed because of enrichment and exploitation of the populace.
Fair enough, but nowadays it can only be a propaganda film!
You think I'd lend myself to that? I have many jewish friends.
Kristina Söderbaum, my wife, plays the female lead.
And to calm you, the novel was written by Feuchtwanger. A Jew.
But no one would take me as a Jew. I wouldn't say that.
Nevermind, it is a terrific part! For Werner Krauss, absolutely!
Why don't you play it? I play already Rabbi Löw.
The thing is not quite kosher for me, either.
Here!
Real shrunken heads. Got them from Brasil.
Skeleton and jaws are removed, then they are put into hot sand.
Thanks, I'm sick already. "Mr Goebbels, please!
Please, let me play all jewish minor roles."
"It seems you are megalomaniac, Krauss!" "No, I'm an actor, Mr. Goebbels.
Please, the role of Rabbi Löw is much too small for me."You know well,
I'm against double roles." "Yes, then you'll have to do without me,
farewell!" Isn't it brilliant?
The pianist plays the Radetzky March
Keep your seats, keep your seats, I beg you! Remain seated.
I'm in hurry a bit, but I wanted to show up shortly.
A bottle of champagne. Immediately, Mr Goebbels!
So. Did you agree already?
I don't know the script yet. I stand up for its quality,
that should be enough. Certainly, but...
I don't know if I'm meant for this role. You are, Marian.
Listen. I need this film.
This film is important for the war. And I need you,
and only you, in the leading role.
And Krauss! That you want to play all jewish minor roles,
is a brilliant idea!
I thought you're against double roles? Yes, but also against harping on about principles.
Because that, my dear Harlan, is the perfect opportunity to show
that all jewish characters are from one and the same origin.
That's brilliant, Krauss! So, Marian, I count on you!
You can remain seated, and, if you didn't know yet:
Our top fees are tax-free.
I wish you nice rest of the evening!
Very brilliant, Krauss. Man proposes, Goebbels disposes.
Strange, normally he responds to every woman. He's not allowed, since the affair
with the Czech woman, the Fuehrer himself tought him a lesson.
By the way, were no other colleagues asked?
I understand. You understand nothing!
We made countless test shots. The result was disastrous!
Despite top fee and tax-free?
Can I have a test shot, too? Excuse me, the ladies at the bar
wish for a song.
Madame.
(sings) Es gibt auf der Welt (There is in the world)
doch erstens kein Geld (fore one thing, no money) und zweitens ist's Glück gewöhnlich rar. (for another thing, luck is commonly rare)
Drum kommt einmal das Glück, (So, if luck comes for once) auch nur für einen Augenblick... (once for a moment...)
The role fits him, by all means.
Da wird mir nicht bang, (Then I'm not scared,) da frag ich nicht lang, (and I don't keep asking long)
ob's Gewissen mich hinterher beißt. (if I'll be conscience-smitten afterwards.)
Da denk ich mir nur, blödes Gewissen, (Then I only think, stupid conscience, be quiet) gib Ruh,
ich bin doch ein Mensch und kein Geist. (I'm a human and no ghost.)
I'm just not made for such a monkish existence.
I need people around me.
Colleagues.
Yes, I'm an actor.
I miss my profession just as much. BUt you have family,
you don't need to hide.
In some way, I have to do that as well. I start already,
to give monologues out loud! Your own or others?
Goethe for example, Mephisto: "The spirit, I, which evermore denies.
And justly, for whate'er to light is brought
Deserves again to be reduced to naught.
Then better 'twere that naught should be.
Thus all the elements which ye, Destruction, Sin, or briefly, Evil name,
as my peculiar element I claim."
Why can't I play that anymore?
A Jew's perfect role!
window slams shut
Quiet!
Probably just the wind. We start becoming paranoid.
Excuse me, that I let myself go that way! Sometimes such things have to be let out,
otherwise one gets mad. What are friends for, Willi!
And the shirt? My husband needs it today.
Only the bedclothes.
Did you picture your housekeeping year like that, Britta?
I mean, do you like it here with us? You bet!
I always fancied Mr Marian and...
Please don't get me wrong. Oh, no.
I fancied him myself once. Not anymore?
After so many years of marriage, fancy gives way to love.
Not into the dresser! Into the cupboard.
Tell me, Madame Marian...
Mr Deutscher, doesn't he have a flat on his own?
Not in Berlin, otherwise he woudn't live with us.
And no family? I don't know that.
He likes being alone, he says.
Strange. Lutz already asked me too what he's doing the whole day.
There's not much gardening in winter.
Don't worry. He washes the car, cuts the bushes, clears the paths.
Why does it concern your boyfriend, after all?
phone rings
The discussion of the script took until morning.
Yes. Yes, I'll drive to the studio right away. I'm dog-tired, but...
Yes. Until later!
I hate this. I can't do it. You have no bad conscience?
Yes. But it adds to the pleasure.
Don't think badly of me. I'm just lonely, since my husband is at the front.
Do you love him? Of course.
And you? Do you love your wife? Of course.
I put a fresh shirt out for you. Really?
It's almost noon. Did you sleep in the theatre?
In the theatre?
Exactly. Where else?
Did you read it? Yes.
So, what do you think of it?
I didn't read it yet. I understand.
Discussion of script, the whole night. You know that.
Only blah-blah. No, I don't know that.
And, how's the script? That bad? No, it isn't bad.
But horrible.
I won't do it, anyway. I wanted a test shot
and I'll be as bad as all the rest, why am I an actor at all!
Ah, Marie! I got an A!
Well! What for? For a poem!
I recited it most beautifully. Come on, then.
Test shot Maria one, the first!
"Nun wird es in den Schulen schön, (Now it will be nice in school,) denn alle Juden müssen gehen. (Because all the Jews have to leave.)
Die Großen und die Kleinen, (The big ones and the small ones,) da hilft kein Schreien und Weinen. (Screaming and crying doesn't help.)
Und auch nicht Zorn und Wut. (Nor do fury and anger.) Fort mit der Judenbrut! (Away with all the Jewish breed.)
'Nen deutschen Lehrer wollen wir, (We want a German teacher,) der uns den Weg zur Klugheit führ, (Who leads the way to cleverness,)
der mit uns wandert, spielt und dann (Wanders and plays with us, but yet) auch Zucht und Ordnung halten kann. (Keeps us children in good order)
Der mit uns fröhlich ist und lacht, (Who makes jokes with us and laughs) damit das Lernen Freude macht." (So going to school is quite a joy.)
That's horrible!
What's the matter with you? I feel dizzy, that's all.
I have it from time to time. Why did you never tell me?
You don't tell me everything, either!
Tcha. Britta asks me questions about Willi.
Her boyfriend asks about him. Maybe she should leave.
Why are you concerned about Britta? She's totally harmless.
If I play the Jew badly, they'll say he has no talent.
If I play him well, I'll have to play him again and again.
And finally they'll think I'm one myself.
If that's your only worry... Why do you always give me the feeling,
that you're a Saint and I am an asshole?
Hello!
Please over there, onto the marking.
So. And now the following sentence, please:
"I thought, Württemberg is rich?" What, only one sentence?
I can't act out, then, at all. You shouldn't do that!
That's the first scene in the Frankfurt ghetto.
A courtier wants to buy jewellery from the duke, but it's too expensive for him.
Your sentence follows:
I thought, Württemberg is rich? Exactly like that.
Low-voiced, unstressed, only with a light smile.
Sound.
Camera.
Please! I thought, Württemberg is rich?
Thank you!
Goodbye. What, that's all? But I didn't...
Mr Marian. Thank you.
Stop! What are you doing with my gardener? Better don't ask, Mrs Marian.
Otherwise we'll take you with us right away and ask you some unpleasant questions.
Don't worry about me, my gracious lady. Bad weeds grow tall.
Did you know he's a Jew? Who? Mr Deutscher? A Jew?
And did you tell your boyfriend? I don't have to put up with that!
The BDM will certainly find me another place!
Lutz only does his duty, Mrs Marian.
? music from the record player?
Mr Deutscher is gone.
Mom locked herself up.
Go to bed, child. I'll come upstairs then. Why is Mr Deutscher gone?
I'll tell you another time.
Anna.
he knocks
Anna, please open. Open!
he knocks
Anna, please!
What can we possibly do for him now? You could speak to Goebbels personally.
What should I tell him? That we did hide a Jew for months?
It hurts me as much as you.
But why did Britta have to leave?
She looked like bad conscience itself.
Could it be that she was hurt, because you suspected her wrongly?
Come.
(Maria sings) SA marches
with calm, firm steps.
Comrades shot by Red Front and reactionaries,
march in spirit within our ranks.
Comrades shot by Red Front and reactionaries,
march in spirit within our ranks.
I don't want to be a burden for you and Maria.
If you want, I'll leave. To Austria, to my mother.
What are you talking about?
You can never leave me! You're all I have.
Marian senses instinctively that he will be regarded as a Jew.
That he'll never get rid of the role. But that's exactly why I want him!
He seemed like a Jew as Iago. In all his smiling greasiness.
knocking
Mr Marian is here now! He shall enter!
My dear Marian! Good that we can finally have a talk.
Speak up! Why don't you want to go for the "Jud Süß"?
Mr Goebbels, I... Take a seat, first.
I'm not suited for this role.
Believe me, the artist himself can judge that last of all.
And the test shot was brilliant. I only had to speak one sentence!
Sometimes one sentence is worth a thousand words.
And Harlan here stands up for your qualification, right?
Certainly! You see, that's enough for me!
But I... don't feel like I'm up to this role!
You actors...
Sometimes you are vain. And sometimes insecure like little children.
But it's this subtlety that makes a great artist.
And, by the way, you were brilliant in your last film.
Only this white paint at the temples, to make you look older! That...
Yeah, ghastly, wasn't it? But they wouldn't listen to me!
What was the title of the film? "Tomorrow I'll get arrested".
"Tomorrow I'll get arrested."
I'll let you alone.
Have a look, Marian. These...
are statistics about the popularity of our German film actors.
You rank poorly. Yes, many only know my face
and not my name. Your face will be forgotten, too
if you're absent for a few years. You can choose:
Either known, favored, famous
or proscribed, lost, forgotten.
I can crush you like a bug. But Mr Goebbels,
I'd be a miscast.
No one would buy this role from me! That's not how my audience wants to see me!
Not how your audience wants to see you?
Who casts you? The audience or me?
Believe me, there are a thousand better ones. I play sympathetic bon vivants.
And your Iago was a sympathetic bon vivant?
No, but that was Shakespeare! And I...
am Josef Goebbels!
On the one hand, you actors demand every support from us.
And we pay you more than our greatest scientists!
But if we once want something from one of our actors,
he thinks: "No, the Jud Süß I cannot play,
otherwise I can't go to Hollywood anymore. Otherwise the jewish vermin over there
won't engage me anymore! Please, that's not the point!
Silence! YOu have lost the right
to tell me in this room that you accept the role!
Leave and tell it to one of the gentlemen of my function!
Out! Out with you! No! I tell you right here!
I don't accept this role. I won't do it! And that's that!
Those actors are like children. Stubborn, but likeable.
He threw an ash tray before my feet and refused. Great!
He's perfect for the role!
Betrayal.
Betrayal on you, betrayal on me.
You'll play the role, then! I...
I rejected it.
You rejected it?
Anna!
he cries
Anna.
I'll never get a role again. I'm ruined.
I'm so proud of you.
Most interesting! She's at least a quarter Jewish.
Well, who knows for what this information will be useful some time.
You're not so stupid.
Come here.
I know what sacrifice you make, I'm very grateful to you.
It's also in my interest.
If you won't get any roles anymore, you'll sit at home the whole day.
Maybe I'll get another role? Yes, why else would he invite you?
To humiliate me.
You're trembling.
It'll be OK.
New guests.
My dear Mrs Marian.
It's a great honour for me to finally get to know you in person.
Good evening.
Well, Marian! Let's get along again? I'd be glad, Mr Goebbels. Thank you very much.
Please.
I'll be right back. Magda.
May I introduce the Marians? It's a true pleasure,
to finally meet you personally. A pity that the Rühmanns didn't come.
Heinz shoots in Munich right now. Are you from Austria as well, Mrs Marian?
Yes, indeed. And she was once a very talented actress, right?
Really? Why aren't you anymore? Sometimes the conditions are not so...
What conditions?
Madam, as you can imagine, I'm unfit as mother and housewife.
I understand.
You knew Wilhelm Deutscher, no? A bit.
He too doesn't work as actor anymore,
and personally I regret it endlessly.
Come, Mrs Marian, I introduce you to another young mother.
Kristina Söderbaum. Kristinchen! Oswald, old warrior!
Now, you got dressed up! May I introduce? Kristina Söderbaum.
Now, my dear! Krauss.
Cling together, swing together? What do you mean?
Look around you. Eugen Klöpfer, Albert Florath, Malte Jäger.
All who take part! In what?
Well, man, Marian, old chap! So we shoot a film together, after all.
I already look forward to booze with you! Have you heard that one:
The devil comes to the actor, says: "My friend, you can have everything,
big roles, big houses, beautiful women, fast cars. But!
But you must sell your soul to me!
"Yes", the actor says, "yes, yes. But what's the catch?"
What's the catch?
Listen, another one: Himmler's last hour has come,
lies on his death-bed, yes. Calls for a rabbi. Why?
Wants to convert to Judaism. Why?
Again one more less!
One less!
You see, Marian, our faithful Heinrich is there as well!
My esteemed Ladies and Gentlemen!
May I introduce to you now the kingpin of our project:
Ferdinand Marian.
It wasn't easy for him
to accept this role, but I am convinced
that he will play it brilliantly and will very soon
be among the first and foremost of our German actors.
Bravo calls
Because this film, my dear friends,
will be our German "Panzerkreuzer Potemkin"!
Bravo calls
Because it's simply a question of time, my friends,
until our German films
will be viewed around the world.
Yes!
And isn't it irony of fate,
in German films the Jews will
be played by Aryan actors!
In American films, however
the National Socialists are played by Jewish immigrants!
Bravo calls
Sieg heil! (all) Sieg heil!
Now, my dear Moser! You want to act in the film as well?
I'm terribly sorry, but the "Jud Süß" is really no comedy.
I thought, maybe you want to tell me something concerning my wife?
Well, well, you thought?
If you believe it or not, our dear Moser writes
an essay-long letter to the Fuehrer, in which he asks
permission for the return of his Jewish wife.
What to say to that?
Does that mean, I can hope, Mr Goebbels?
My wife is such a decent person. Yes, yes, my dear Moser, I know that.
And suddenly there are 80 millio decent Jews in Germany,
since every single German knows at least one.
No, no, my dear Moser, no, no. But we are no monsters,
and you are still the favorite comedian of our Fuehrer,
so wait until the war is won, then we can talk about it.
Ladies and gentlemen, the dancing can begin!
Now, Marian. Has everything turned to good account?
Thank you, no, I don't want to dance. Excuse me.
I am certain that you'll deliver a Jew under my guidance,
who'll go down in history.
Well, my dear Mrs Marian.
Wouldn't you like to play a small role again some time?
At your husband's side perhaps?
Anna Altmann is still a familiar name!
Especially in your Austrian homeland. Well, you know,
I'm quite content at home. Besides, our daughter needs me.
And inside operates the virtuous housewife, right?
But is it enough for a woman like you, such a...
bourgeous life as plain housewife? Why should it not be enough for me?
Oh, but I feel the passion that burns inside you.
And Britta is pregnant.
Really? It doesn't seem so. Congratulations!
I'm only in the third month. Charming, charming.
And what will you do in the near future? - Britta! Can you hear?
Mr Goebbels just said it. Mr Marian plays the "Jud Süß".
Congratulations!
I want to leave. You can stay, if you want.
Tell me, my dear Marian, does your wife dislike us perhaps?
Oh, not at all, she just feels a bit indisposed today.
Oh yes, the moods and maladies of women, I know them well.
My dear Mrs Marian. Thank you very much for the invitation.
I hope you'll feel better soon and you'll come again soon.
We will, Mr Goebbels. It was a pleasure for me.
Farewell!
Sieg heil calls from the next room
Goebbels doesn't want some cheap anti-semitic propaganda, he's too clever for that.
He wants international honour, you understand?
With the creme de la creme of our actors! That's a unique chance!
Can you miss that?
I'll give them a Jew one will pity in the end.
A human being, you understand? All will fall for my charm!
I know well, how to get the audience on my side!
There are a thousand tricks how to make the Jew sympathetic!
Tell me, why must my role be worse than that of Krauss
or of the dutiful German Aryans? I never said so.
Well, then! Why must I stand apart, then? Tell me.
Mom.
Sir, I recommend you, not to miss the next stagecoach!
I have some work to do in Stuttgart and wanted to inform myself,
if he can recommend an inn. In the Capital Stuttgart
there are no Jewish inns!
My compliments to your knowledge of human nature, Sir,
but I'm so thankful to the amiable lady, that she will understand
if I give no answer.
Must you really close your eyes and look to the ground?
Be a bit more confident! More cheeky! I just got deeply humiliated.
Why? A Jew knows such humiliations and knows how to deal with them.
He lived in the ghetto! There everybody treated him with respect.
I don't argue with you.
Mr Goebbels has announced himself personally for the shooting tomorrow.
Wonderful! Let him judge it! What?
The way how you behave here? That as well, please, yes.
Sir, I recommend you, not to miss the next stagecoach!
I have some work to do in Stuttgart and wanted to inform myself,
if he can recommend an inn. In the Capital Stuttgart
there are no Jewish inns!
My compliments to your knowledge of human nature, Sir.
Camera off!
We wanted to do it differently! Really?
Bravo!
You see, Marian, I was right.
You shine in your role!
Don't you worry, Mr Goebbels, the viewer could sympathise
with Süß, when he speaks the sentence with such dignity?
Oh, no! Why? The Jew must be a human being and no monster!
Otherwise everyone would instantly think: What a cheap propaganda!
And later, we draw the viewer back to our side with the words of your father,
when he says:
"My daughter won't give birth to Jewish children!"
And then, the sentence that strikes like a blow!
"What's that insolence, you prick,
to breed discord between the duke and his people?"
And as soon as the Jew is out of the room, Eugen Klöpfer tears open the window
and says: "Fresh air!"
No, let Marian do his work! He will be hanged in the end, anyway.
You would be a brilliant actor! I would, my dear Harlan?
I am! I am.
Oh, Ladies and gentlemen! And by the way,
France is free, the Fuehrer is in Paris!
(all) Bravo, Mr Goebbels! Bravo.
And even abroad he's now recognized as a great statesman.
In all measures, he's far ahead of development.
As every genius, by the way. How often he surprised even me.
all are laughing
In this sense, good work and Heil Hitler!
(all) Heil Hitler!
Oh, and Harlan, your Jewish extras
you can recruit from a Polish ghetto. And I suggest
that Marian drives directly with you. That way, my dear Marian,
you'd have the opportunity to study real Jews.
So, keep it up, my dear Marian, great!
Sieg heil! (all) Sieg heil!
So, the scene once again?
In the can! Rebuilding break.
honking
Fall in! Line up! - Fall in! Line up!
Fall in! Line up!
How many Jews do you need? A few dozen, Hauptsturmführer.
Deutscher.
Deutscher!
Step forward. Our interpreter. Just come from the homeland.
Well, introduce yourself, then. With complete first and surname.
Wilhelm Adolf Deutscher.
Cracking! Well, Wilhelm is still all right. But Adolf!
That is really exaggerated for a Jew!
And then the comparative form of Deutsch: Deutscher.
It is Israeli-German, you piece of shit!
I need 150 people, Mr Deutscher. Of these, let's say, 30 women.
As extras for a great film. We shoot in Berlin.
Decent food and shelter, comfortable train ride there and back.
Yes, yes. The people will be glad to get away from here, for once.
Who told you to open your mouth? Let it be, Mr Frowein.
Can you select the people? Yes, I'll see to it myself.
Can I contribute as well? - No way!
I need you here! As an interpreter alone.
Could you take him along for my sake? Just look at his face.
You're right, Marian. A very good head for close-ups.
You could do without him for a couple of days, no?
(Frowein) Yes, certainly, if it's necessary.
French chanting
One day shooting break. I thought, Maybe your wife misses you?
I just wanted to go out. Where?
Where there are people! Life, music.
Where is Maria? At Wortmanns.
She didn't want to see me anymore. I can imagine, in that state.
I told her her grandmother is Jewish. Are you mad?
Yes. I want to be mad. Like all of you. Come, drink with me!
You're going nowhere. You're finished. Then fuck me, at least.
With the others you do it, too! Or do I not attract you anymore?
That's racial defilement!
Incomprehensible Jewish chant
Incomprehensible talk
Ferdl!
Erich!
What are you doing here in Prague? I shoot a comedy.
May I introduce Vlasta. she's an extra.
Ferdinand Marian, the famous actor.
It has always been my wish to become an actress.
I bet you're a great talent.
Cheers, my friend. To happier times.
At least you've been spared from typhus.
Heil Hitler! (all) Heil Hitler!
Heil.
Go on. I like it.
Hello, Mr Knauf. - Heil Hitler.
Who's that? This guy!
He shot the film "Der ewige Jude". In front of a camera,
they forced men and women from the ghetto to copulate.
With guns aimed at them.
Cheers, Marian! Doctor Knauf
from the press department of Terra Film. May I introduce:
Mr Deutscher, a former colleague of mine.
Tell me, extras are needed here all the time?
Bit player would be even better. The minister announced before the "Jud Süß"
that films with a similar topic are produced regularly now.
Maybe I really got something for you. - As what? As professional Jew?
And how do I justify this before my people, when the war is over?
It will take longer! At least as long until Göring fits into Goebbels' trousers.
You two I don't need to introduce anymore.
No, we had the honour already. Good evening.
What's the difference between Christianity and National Socialism?
In Christianity, one dies for all, in National Socialism: All for one!
I must remember this one. I must remember this one!
Do you have a cigarette for me?
One thing intersts me, how does it feel to play a lousy Jew?
I know why you stand up for me. To silence your bad conscience,
because you caused my arrest.
I understand that one gets paranoid in your situation, Mr Deutscher,
but to suspect me of this, when I accomodated you, that's too much.
Then I must apologize? No, you don't have to. It's alright.
One thing I can promise you, this won't be any cheap propaganda,
this will be an artistic film.
Do you promise?
No Jew can enter Stuttgart. You know that well.
If His Serene Highness is interested to do business with me,
Your Excellency will certainly contrive ways to get me a passport,
which will remove all difficulties on the border for me.
You don't even get across the barrier with your passport.
Lift the Jewish barrier! Lift the Jewish barrier?
Not even the duke can do that. The duke gets his jewellery,
but only if I myself can bring it.
Alright. But it is urgent, the duke needs the jewellery.
Trust Süß Oppeneimer, your Excellency. Levi?
Are you crazy, Joseph? You want to cut beard?
You want to cut Pejes? You don't want to wear a Kaftan anymore?
Hoste nicht Moire vorm Rebbe? Du Chammer! (You fool!)
I open the door for all of you! You'll walk in velvet and silk.
It can be tomorrow, it can be the day after tomorrow.
But it will be!
Really? Should a Jew be more generous than the gentlemen from my region?
The people apparently don't know how to treat a great man.
And you know that? I believe I know. Par exemple:
I don't understand why the estates deny His Serene Highness a ballet.
I won't get into my head. His Serene Highness allow that I,
if I could make an arrangement, that His Serene Highness could
maybe... the ballet, I mean, I don't know, but maybe...
I'd consider myself lucky if I could say justly:
I am a faithful servant to my master!
Remchingen. - Yes, His Serene Highness.
Interrupt the rehearsal.
Bring me the little one, the black-haired,
bring her up to me.
Sweet! His Serene Highness.
I need something little.
I've got nothing else with me at the moment.
You see, Hippler. That's what I mean: Subtle manipulation.
Right. This will do.
But that's the husband of Dorothea Sturm.
The most Christian husband. Who are the rebels?
He wants to speak out? Who wants civil war?
You! Me?
Interesting! It's you who want the coup d'etat.
You advised the duke so, didn't you?
It rests on me to ask. Not on him. It will be more embarassing for him than for me.
To the screws with the gentleman.
Without mercy. Until he speaks.
She should look at this one.
Well, does she look at it?
Does she still think she can lure me with it?
She wants to free her father and husband? She's doing it cleverly.
If a bird-catcher has to let a bird out of the cage,
he must have another one for it. That she will understand?
The cloth is out. Go!
Now, Carl, do you really have fun with that?
She knows that voice? For Heaven's sake!
Remove the cloth. Come on, remove it!
What does it mean? Does she still hear something? This it means.
screams
Come on, remove it, my child. Carl!
Now she gives me back my cloth. No!
Then she should keep it, but... Father in heaven.
What? Oh, praying. Well, then pray she.
Pray she to her God. Pray she, then. But it's not only you Christians who have a God.
We Jews have one, too. And that's the god of revenge.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. She should thank her father.
He shall let me! Does she not want, that I make
that the traitors won't be shot? He shouldn't touch me!
Oh, she shouldn't make such a fuss! Afterwards she can have her actuary back.
reporter questions in Italian
Buona sera. Io sono molto contento
essere qui in Italia e di avere I'onore
di far vedere il nostro bello film qui in Italia. Un saluto Romano!
applause and incomprehensible shouts
Great respnse. Are you a bit proud of your husband now?
Of course.
You were absolutely marvelous in your role, I'm proud of you.
Even though I followed no single stage direction.
May I introduce? Signor Donadoni.
One of the greatest Italian film producers.
Signor Marian, my firm has good contacts to America. Hollywood.
Would you be interested in a major international project?
Of course, if you got something appropriate. Well, I see you as a lover
with, how shall I put it, certain bad sides.
How do you know my husband that well?
Success all around! Mr Marian, now you will get famous all over the world.
All important papers praise you. Here, for example:
Ferdinand Marian portrays the figure of Süss with greatest subtlety,
the presentation of a Jew will go down in cinematic history.
This writes an Italian critic with the fabulous name:
Michelangelo Antonioni.
What is it, Ferdl? Will we risk it?
The day after tomorrow there's a plane from Rome to Casablanca.
And from there, a ship to New York.
Mr Donadoni promised to arrange everything.
I know.
Do you love me?
Yes, I love you.
But I still have to go to the premiere in Berlin.
Even the heart of his duchess he did obtain by fraud.
Only the heart? I don't understand.
I asked, if it were only the heart?
How does His Serene Highness mean that? I mean that you hold nothing sacred.
Not even the wife of your duke.
Only your profit, your interests.
His Highness seem to mistrust me.
Yes...
I mistrust you.
incomprehensible shouting
That's how revolutions start.
A bloodbath, if your Highness doesn't reflects betimes.
Confront the people with a power they don't dare to challenge.
How much is that? I mean, to lend soldiers? How much is that?
How much does your Highness need?
If however, a Jew mingles with a Christian woman in the flesh,
he shall by cord be brought from life to death,
to him for just deserts, as a deterrant to everyone!
I was nothing but a faithful servant to my sovereign!
It's not my fault if your duke was a traitor!
I want to make up for everything, I swear.
Take from me my houses, take my money, but let me live!
I'm innocent!
I'm just a poor Jew! Let me live!
I want to live! Live I want! Live!
The Estates proclaim through me the will of the people of Württemberg.
All Jews are to leave Württemberg within three days.
The ban on jews hereby applies to the whole of Württemberg!
Assigned at Stuttgart on February 4th, 1738.
May our desendants adhere to it strictly,
so that they might be spared much suffering concerning their possession and life
and the blood of their children and children's children.
Well, gentlemen!
As I can see, you're as delighted as me.
To praise above all are the accomplishments of KraUSS
and Marian.
And please make it clear in all your articles
what a big nationalistic sacrifice both had to make
by playing a Jew.
And once again, for the hopelessly stupid:
Of course none of them is a Jew!
Comments on the Jewish question don't belong to the film reviews,
but to the politics section!
And there, this film is a marvelous occasion, of course.
The tenor should be like:
At least since the start of the war,
the Jews are our officially declared enemies!
And such have always been detained,
to prevent sabotage and espionage.
And that's just how the enemies treat us Germans.
And who, my dear friends, does pity us?
The Fuehrer...
already predicted it in January '39.
If the Jews provoke war one more time,
it will end with their annihilation!
incomprehensible talk
One buys the Jew from Marian, one could say, he is a Jew.
I don't want to know how many people from now on think that he's a Jew.
Excuse me for a moment. I don't doubt it at all,
that this will be a tremendous success.
Congratulations!
A great success! And you see, it is possible after all!
The artistically significant, stirring National Socialist film.
And, Marian, all rave about your performance.
Well, I'm just a poor Jew, I only did my duty.
He's just a poor Jew!
Oh, excuse me, madam.
I think your dear husband really needs a sympathetic role now.
What about you two together in a...
in a comedy? Oh! That would be fantastic, a dream!
And dreams are there to be fulfilled!
Excuse me for a moment. Marian, may I introduce
a fervent admirer of your acting.
Mrs Frowein. You already know her husband from the Polish ghetto.
SS-Hauptsturmführer Frowein. Ah!
You have nothing to drink?
Excuse me, but I should... First of all you must explain to me
how you managed so impressively to empathize with someone who's about to be hanged.
I'm an actor. What exactly did you feel then?
Terror? Desparation?
Maybe even pleasure?
Pleasure? It is known that a hanged man
gets his last erection. - Congratulation, Mr Marian.
It must have been an everyday struggle to portray this scum.
Why? I felt with him, I understood him!
Otherwise I would have played a caricature and no human being.
Believe me, I also feel bad for every human,
but duty is duty, we all play our roles.
Will this film be shown in Posen too? Sure. Why not?
Lutz gets a country estate there, as part of the settlement plan.
Really? You know something about agriculture?
The Poles will do it all. - On Tuesday I have to go to the service.
That would also be an interesting environment study for your role,
but don't be scared, you only played the Jew.
ringing and sirens
May I ask you to come into the air-raid shelter as well, drinks are provided.
room 446
(announcement) Ladies and gentlemen, dear guests!
Please proceed to our air-raid shelters beneath the foyer.
We kindly ask you to be careful when entering the staircase.
Maria! Excuse me, Mr Marian. You were great, by the way.
Only a small thing, because of my wife. Since you now have
direct access to Dr. Goebbels... What gives you that idea, Mr Moser?
We are married for more than 20 years. I mean, that's not possible, such a thing.
Why do you think that I... Well, you of all people! We are colleagues,
even though you're Jewish. If Hitler makes an exception in your case,
he can also do it in case of my wife... Moser, are you mad?
I'm not a Jew!
Jesus!
What have I done here?
And you really want to go to room 446? Of course. Wherelse?
bomb and shell impacts
Isn't that exciting?
This scene, where he lets torture her husband.
And pressures her to sleep with him.
You know what I think? She doesn't want her husband anymore.
She wants the Jew.
This prayer. That way she tells him she's ready for sin.
Father in heaven, father in heaven and so on.
Come on! Speak your text! Just pray, pray to your God!
But it's not only you Christians who have a God. We Jews have one too.
That's the god of revenge.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!
Do it with me, Jew! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Do it with me, Jew!
Don't believe everything that is written, my dear Georg.
We're still interested in diplomatic relations with America,
that's certain, it would be... May I introduce:
Georg Heckeneimer, Ferdinand Marian, the main actor of our film.
You can hang us, but we will survive you.
It can be tomorrow, it can be the day after tomorrow.
But it will be.
Does your wife desire a Jew that much too, Goebbels?
You're completely drunk, Marian, get out of here.
Get out of here immediately.
I think he drank just a little bit too much.
Evening.
She literally smells after the sperm of this guy.
But I'll show him his limits, once and for all!
Bravo calls
Mr Marian! Frowein. You remember?
Ah, yes.
My deep thanks for this film.
If one of my men still has doubts now, I just have to show him the film.
I'm commandeered now. First to a transit camp,
then I'll command a concentration camp, still in course of construction.
Friend Deutscher, Wilhelm Adolf Israel-Deutscher,
you remember. My interpreter, the one you wanted to make a film star of.
This one I take with me! Deutscher goes to a concentration camp?
To each his own. Could you do me a favor?
Can you see to it, that nothing happens to him?
Ah, that's the way the wind blows. You wanted to take him to Prague.
So that your domestic Jew can disappear? What are you talking about? How should he disappear?
The unlucky man? Unlucky?
Exactly. Heil Hitler.
Always the tea drinking. I want cognac! Marian, please. You're not alone here.
His name is Frowein.
KZ commander he shall become.
And his wife prefers to do it with Jews!
Marian! Oh, excuse me, Mrs Reichswasserding...
Enough now, Marian! But she has such nice titties.
You can't be all there!
Harlan! Mr Marian? Mr Marian.
Your call to Berlin!
Yes, Anna?
Anna?
That's just a bad joke, isn't it?
Who is on the phone, please?
Hello, are you still there?
Where is Goebbels?
This delightful film Heinz Rühmann made together with my children.
That's the most beautiful present for my 43rd.
Dear daddy, you see us marching like soldiers
And you guessed it right, we're there and congratulate you.
Chest out, fall into step, because it's your birthday today.
Take care what happens here, we were marching with the time.
Isn't this undescribably sweet?
Where is my wife? Someone said she was taken away, on the phone.
You see pink elephants while plastered? That's a private event.
Out with you, Marian! But I must find my wife.
I want to know where my wife is! Let me be!
I want to know where my wife is!
I'm terribly sorry.
He spoke to one of my people. Some sort of shock treatment.
We had to bring him to his senses! You saw how he behaved in Berlin
after the premiere. And now again.
(children sing) Daddy, is my best comerade!
Anna!
Marie!
Anna.
Maria!
Anna. Mr Marian?
Your wife was taken away.
Where... Where is my daughter? With your neighbour.
I must go to her!
I must take you with me, unfortunately. Where?
You'll see that soon.
How could you desert from the occupied East?
You know about the consequences!
You civilians always think you deserve special treatment!
You get into the train immediately and drive back.
The limousine is cancelled, Knauf will accompany you.
Your tour is far from over. Where is my wife? Where is she?
She's under preventive arrest. Preventive arrest? Where?
That's secret. Dr Goebbels has the message for you,
you shall continue with your duty and be glad
that your daugher is still at liberty.
My dear Marian, what did you think?
Forgery of documents, racial defilement. Hm?
Children. Come in, quickly. - Why, mommy? They sing very beautifully.
(soldiers sing) SA marches
with quiet steady step.
Comrades shot by the Red Front and reactionists...
Here, drink something! It helps.
Knauf, you're a good guy. Without you I wouldn't bear it.
Yes, yes, it's alright.
incomprehensible orders
Come, come! Hey, you. Take off the coat!
Take off the coat! Take it off! - Come! Come! Quicker!
incomprehensible orders
Come, up with it, come! - Quicker!
Come, Marian, let's go. (Britta) Damned bastards!
Come on! Hurry up!
(soldiers) And... one.
And one. And one.
And one...
? film music?
? sad film music?
Jew!
Excuse me. The Jew did it to her.
Let her be!
? dramatic film music?
Strike him dead! - Strike him dead, the defiler!
Away with the Jew! - Away with the Jew!
Jew! Jew! Jew!
Hey!
Hey, where do you go? For a walk.
Here? They build a camp here!
(soldiers) And one. And one. And one.
Zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg.(Never say you are walking your last road)
Khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg.(When leaden skies conceal blue days)
Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho, (Because the hour we have longed for will yet come)
s'vet a poyk ton undzer trot, mir zaynen do! (Our step will beat out like a drum: We are here!)
Shut your mouth, will you! (sings) Zog nit keyn mol, (Never say)
az du geyst dem letstn veg. (you are walking your last road) - Shut up!
Khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg. (When leaden skies conceal blue days)
Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho, (Because the hour we have longed for will yet come)
s'vet a poyk ton undzer trot, mir zaynen do! (Our step will beat out like a drum: We are here!)
Back! - Stop! What are you doing here?
Pass! You're arrested!
Sturmbandführer Knauf! Reichfilmstelle!
This man is the famous actor Ferdinand Marian. From the film "Jud Süß"!
Excuse the mistake, Mr Sturmbandführer!
And one. And one. And one. - Go on, you scumbags!
(sing) SA marches with quiet steady step...
(sings) Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt (The wind told me a song)
von einem Glück, unsagbar schön. (Of fortune, unspeakably beautiful)
Er weiß, was meinem Herzen fehlt, (It knows what my heart needs)
für wen es schlägt und glüht. (For whom it beats and glows)
Er weiß, für wen. (It knows for whom)
Come...
Ach! Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt, (The wind told me a song)
von einem Herzen, das mir fehlt. (About a heart that I am missing)
The wind.
Bravo calls
I thank you. A thousand thanks. You have given me a great present.
One I couldn't have afforded with my whole fortune.
Ladies and gentlemen, who knows from which film this scene is taken?
(soldier) La Habanera! - A bottle of fizz for the gentleman.
La Habanera with Zarah Leander and, now pay attention,
it's really him: Ferdinand Marian!
Bravo calls
I already ordered you something to drink. You're a true friend.
Any new jokes?
Two years.
What's that?
Pollutes the air and will hang soon?
Jud Süß! There he sits!
Marian! Shut up!
Where is Vlasta?
Up there.
incomprehensible talk
Come, Marian!
Now, that's enough! Hey! Hey!
(Vlasta) Don't make such a fuss! - Damned bastard!
To make out with such an asshole. He's not as wasted as you.
Ferdl!
What are you doing on the laps of those?
Not as bad as you, Ferdl!
You've been sitting on Goebbels' lap! Shut up, you!
You even dressed up as a Jew for him.
Shut up! I told you, shut your mouth!
Shut up, you stupid cunt! I'll throw you out!
Have I gotten some meat, from the horse.
You have to eat, Ferdl! Have you not only a face, have you also a body.
Finally the Americans let me act again. I missed it.
Direct contact with the audience. You won't memorise any text
if you go on boozing like tha!
Did you call daughter? Maria doesn't want to see me anymore,
she despises me. Is silly little girl.
Come on, give it to me. No! I'll throw it down the toilet!
Do you hear that? Come. Come with me. Where?
The Americans have a summer party at the meadow.
There will be only small beer, anyway. Must I dress beautifully?
What do you think of it?
Chic?
Write, we don't want to have to do anything with this film anymore.
We were forced. You certainly have a copy!
Who are the people over there?
From the concentration camp. Freed by the Americans.
Have found free shelter in the Gasthaus Sperrer,
Line up the whole day on the street and even get a fat compensation.
And the German nation starves!
Willi!
Do you still know what you promised me back then? To this hand?
That it will be a purely artistic film.
Don't you remember it?
It was in the summer of '42.
A wonderful day.
Frowein showed his people your film "Jud Süß".
Afterwards they set the dogs on us.
I was still lucky.
Anna not so much.
She was gassed.
There is a poem by Heine:
"Nicht gedacht soll seiner werden, (He shall not be remembered)
nicht im Liede, nicht im Buche. (Not in song, not in books)
Dunkler Hund im dunklen Grabe, (Dark dog in a dark tomb)
du verfaulst mit meinem Fluche." (You rot with my curse.)
Help him please! They will kill him! - Okay.
Stop it! Stop it! Leave him alone!
What are you doing here? You help a Nazi?
Your identity card!
Come! Let's go home! Let me be! I'm cursed.
? dramatic music?
(Zarah Leander sings) Allein bin ich in der Nacht. (Alone I am in then night)
Meine Seele wacht und lauscht. (My soul wakes and harkens)
Oh, Herz, (Oh, heart)
hörst du, wie es klingt, (Do you hear how it rings)
in den Palmen singt und rauscht? (Sings in the palms and rushes?)
Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt, (The wind told me a song,)
von einem Glück, unsagbar schön. (Of fortune, unspeakably beautiful)
Er weiß, was meinem Herzen fehlt, (It knows what my heart needs)
für wen es schlägt und glüht. (For whom it beats and glows)
Er weiß, für wen. (It knows for whom.)
And...
Ah! Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt, (The wind has told me a song)
von einem Herzen, das mir fehlt. (About a heart that I am missing)
Am Meer stand ich abends oft, (I was often at the seaside in the evenings)
und ich hab gehofft. (And I hoped.)
Auf was denn? (... for what?)
Ich sah bunten Vögeln nach, (I looked at colourful birds)
ach, mein Glück zerbrach wie Glas. (Ah, my fortune broke like glass)
Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt, (The wind has told me a song)
von einem Glück, unsagbar schön. (Of fortune, unspeakably beautiful)
Er weiß, was meinem Herzen fehlt, (It knows what my heart needs)
für wen es schlägt und glüht. (For whom it beats and glows)
Er weiß, für wen. (It knows for whom)
Come...
Ach! Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt, (The wind has told me a song)
von einem Herzen, das mir fehlt. (About a heart that I am missing)
The wind. for rutracker.org
Translated by Sonja Jauernig