"The City without Jews" by Hans Karl Breslauer As part of the commemorative year (1938)
Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 3:30 PM
Austria, 80 mn, 1924, silent film, subtitled in English.
Propaganda image in favor of the Austrian vote for Austria’s annexation to Germany on 10 April 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 as a way out of the economic and social crisis. The novel, which became a bestseller, was made into a film in 1924. In 2015, a copy of the film as well as unpublished footage were found by the Austrian National Archives, which carried out its restoration.
Projection accompanied on piano by Gerhard Gruber.
In partnership with:
In the presence of Jacques Le Rider, historian of Vienna, Hannah Lessing, general secretary 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 led by Ophir Levy, film historian at the University of Paris III and trainer at the Shoah Memorial.
Rates: €5/€3
