Die Stadt ohne Juden

The state of Utopia is afflicted with unemployment and galloping inflation; massive crowds protest in the streets. Nationalist German anti-Semites, headed by the two MPs, Bernart and Volbert, seize the situation as an opportunity to blame the Jews for the nation’s misery. In parliament, a law is passed to expel them ... While the hitherto lost ending of the film sheds new light on DIE STADT OHNE JUDEN, other recovered sequences reveal a parallel narrative. Previously unknown images depict Jewish life in Vienna with a clearly anti-Semitic connotative meaning. All in all, the political message of the film and the depiction of appalling anti-Semitism are articulated in a significantly sharper manner in this new version, reconstructed by Filmarchiv Austria. (Filmarchiv Austria)

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