DIE ROTHCHILDS (1940 W/subtitles)

☆☆ WEEKLY FEATURE MOVIE ☆☆
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The film is also known as The Rothschilds' Shares in Waterloo (International recut version, English title). It portrays the role of the Rothschild family in the Napoleonic wars. The Jewish Rothschilds are depicted in a negative manner, consistent with the anti-Semitic policy of Nazi Germany. The 1940 film has a similar title and a similar plot to a 1934 American film, The House of Rothschild, starring George Arliss and Boris Karloff, that presented the Rothschilds in a more positive light. It is one of three Nazi-era German films that provide an antisemitic retelling of an earlier film. The others, both released in 1940, bore titles similar to films released in 1934: The Eternal Jew was a documentary-format film with the same title as the 1934 film and Jud Süss was a drama based on a 1934 film adaptation of a 1925 novel.
Directed by - Erich Waschneck
Written by - Gerhard T. Buchholz, Mirko Jelusich , C.M. Köhn
Produced by - C.M. Köhn (line producer)
Cinematography - Robert Baberske
Edited by - Walter Wischniewsky
Music by - Johannes Müller
Production company - UFA
Distributed by - UFA
Release date - 17 July 1940
Running time - 97 minutes
Country - Nazi Germany
Language - German
Budget - 951,000
Box office - 2.5 million
Actors
Erich Ponto as Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Carl Kuhlmann as Nathan Rothschild
Herbert Hübner as Anthony Turner
Albert Florath as Baring
Hans Stiebner as Bronstein
Walter Franck as Herries
Waldemar Leitgeb as Wellington
Hans Leibelt as King Louis XVIII
Bernhard Minetti as Fouché
Albert Lippert as James Rothschild
Herbert Wilk as George Crayton
Hilde Weissner as Sylvia Turner
Ludwig Linkmann as Leib Herch
Bruno Hübner as Ruthworth
Rudolf Carl as Rubiner
Michael Bohnen as Prince William IX
Herbert Gernot as Clifford
Theo Shall as Selfridge
Ursula Deinert as Harriet
Hubert von Meyerinck as Baron Vitrolles