The Wandering Jew (1933 Elvey), feature film
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The Wandering Jew / The Eternal Jew (1933) is a feature film (sound, B&W, 111m), directed by Maurice Elvey.
Abstract
Elvey remade his 1923 version of this film and it retained the same storyline based on The Wandering Jew (1920 Thurston), play. Starring Conrad Veidt.
The film portrayed Jews in a favorable light as the victims of unjustified persecution throughout history. The protagonist burns at the stake, a victim of the Spanish Inquisition.
Cast
- Conrad Veidt as the Wandering Jew
- Basil Gill as Pontius Pilate (cut from US version)
Editions
Produced in Great Britain (1933). Released in London, England (15 November 1993) and New York, NY (11 January 1935).
Translations
- Ahasver, der ewige Jude (Austrian ed.)
- O Judeu Errante / O Homem que não Podia Morrer (Brazilian ed.)
- El judío errante (Spanish ed.)
- O periplanomenos Ioudaios (Greek ed.)
- Den vandrande juden (Swedish ed.; 26 March 1937)
External links
Categories:
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- 1933
- Fiction--1930s
- Fiction--English
- Cinema--1930s
- Feature Films
- English language--1930s
- Early Jewish Studies--1930s
- Early Jewish Studies--Fiction
- Early Jewish Studies--English
- Wandering Jew (subject)
- Wandering Jew--fiction (subject)
- Wandering Jew--cinema (subject)
- Pilate--cinema (subject)