"The City without Jews" by Hans Karl Breslauer As part of the commemorative year (1938)

Sunday 18 March 2018 at 3:30 PM

Austria, 80 min, 1924, silent film, subtitled in English.

Propaganda image in favor of the Austrian vote for the annexation of Austria to Germany on April 10, 1938. © Shoah Memorial/coll. Süddeutscher Verlag.

In 1922, Hugo Bettauer, an Austrian Jewish journalist and novelist, published a satire on anti-Semitism. The story takes place in Vienna, where the authorities decide to expel the Jews to get out of the economic and social crisis. The novel, which became a bestseller, was adapted for cinema in 1924. In 2015, a copy of the film as well as unpublished sequences were found by the Austrian National Archives who proceeded with its restoration.

Projection accompanied on the piano by Gerhard Gruber.

In partnership with:

      

In the presence of Jacques Le Rider, historian specialising in Vienna; Hannah Lessing, secretary general of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism and Nikolaus Wostry, director of collections at the Austria Film Archive.

Session moderated by Ophir Levy, film historian at the University of Paris III and trainer at the Shoah Memorial.

Rates: 5€/3€

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