Regie:
Oskar RoehlerMuziek:
Martin TodsharowActeurs:
Tobias Moretti, Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, Justus von Dohnányi, Martin Feifel, Anna Unterberger, Armin Rohde, Paula Kalenberg, Erika Marozsán (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Ferdinand Marian was the actor who in 1940 gave a brilliant performance in the lead in Veit Harlan's Nazi propaganda film JUD SÜSS – but the role was to break him.
The situation already begins to come to a head for Marian during the filming when his wife distances herself from him because she can't bear to see how her husband has changed. The national and international success of JUD SÜSS – which delights audiences at its premiere at the Venice international film festival founded by Mussolini – is but a brief, albeit ecstatic, intermezzo. In time the Nazis' new superstar begins to see through the effect that the film has on society; he also recognises the criminal nature of the regime. Not only are many of his friends forced to emigrate; the Marians also hide Jewish actor Adolf Wilhelm Deutscher in their summerhouse – until a maid denounces Deutscher to her SS lover.
In a desperate attempt to distract himself, Marian succumbs to alcoholic binges and affairs but his actions only succeed in earning him the disapproval of, among others, the propaganda minister himself. In a bid to control him, Goebbles has Marian's wife Anna deported. But this only accelerates the actor's demise, and even his Czech lover Vlasta can no longer give him the support he needs. He no longer wishes to have anything to do with the most successful film of his career.
After the end of the war Marian observes others who were involved in the film attempting to acquit themselves – particularly its director, Nazi propagandist Veit Harlan. At a garden party in Munich Marian meets concentration camp survivor Deutscher, who informs him of Anna's death. Unable to bear Vlasta's intimate behaviour with an American soldier, he breaks down, gets into his car and drives off, never to return again.
(Berlinale)
Acteurs
Tobias Moretti
Oostenrijk
Beste films:
Maximilian: Das Spiel von Macht und Liebe (2017) (serie)
Dem Mörder verfallen - Eine Frau in Gefahr (1999) (Tv-film)
Das ewige Lied (1997) (Tv-film)
Moritz Bleibtreu
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)
Zeiten ändern Dich (2010)
Martina Gedeck
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)
Das Leben ist eine Baustelle. (1997)
Justus von Dohnányi
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Der Untergang (2004)
Napola - Elite für den Führer (2004)
Der ganz große Traum (2011)
Martin Feifel
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
The Promised Land (2023)
Schneeland (2005)
Was tun, wenn's brennt? (2001)
Anna Unterberger
Italië
Beste films:
Freddy/Eddy (2016)
Elser (2015)
Gundermann (2018)
Armin Rohde
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Lola rennt (1998)
Das Leben ist eine Baustelle. (1997)
Barfuss (2005)
Paula Kalenberg
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Vom Atmen unter Wasser (2008) (Tv-film)
Im Winter ein Jahr (2008)
Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen (2010)
Erika Marozsán
Hongarije
Beste films:
Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (1999)
The Company (2007) (serie)
Die Quellen des Lebens (2013)
Ralf Bauer
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen (2010)
Tatort (1970) (serie)
Models (2000) (Tv-film)
Robert Stadlober
Oostenrijk
Beste films:
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Ein ganzes Leben (2023)
Diplomatie (2014)
Milan Peschel
Oost-Duitsland
Beste films:
Halt auf freier Strecke (2011)
Der Hauptmann (2017)
Der ganz große Traum (2011)
Gudrun Landgrebe
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Heimat - Eine deutsche Chronik (1984) (serie)
Wunderkinder (2011)
Die Unsichtbare (2011)
Manuel Rubey
Oostenrijk
Beste films:
Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch! (2008)
Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen (2010)
Corsage (2022)
Waldemar Kobus
Polen
Beste films:
Valkyrie (2008)
Zwartboek (2006)
Der Hauptmann (2017)
Johannes Silberschneider
Oostenrijk
Beste films:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (Tv-film)
Comedian Harmonists (1997)
Die Rebellion (1993) (Tv-film)
Elke Winkens
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen (2010)
Medcrimes - Nebenwirkung Mord (2013) (Tv-film)
Schatten der Erinnerung (2010) (Tv-film)
Felix Hellmann
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Shoppen (2006)
Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen (2010)
Ein Tisch in der Provence (2020) (serie)
Alexander Strobele
Oostenrijk
Beste films:
Schindler's List (1993)
Via Mala (1985) (serie)
Uprising (2001) (Tv-film)
Martin Butzke
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Der Untergang (2004)
Shoppen (2006)
Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen (2010)