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Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the highpoint of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film Jud Süß (1940) makes him controversial.
Mar 15, 2016 · Veit Harlan has often been called “the male Leni Riefenstahl,” but he poses a much bigger challenge for the biographer because he directed a frighteningly effective anti-Semitic hate picture, Jud Süss (1940), for which he had to defend himself in two trials.
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Mar 2, 2010 · In the history of the cinema, the German director Veit Harlan occupies an especially ignominious position. It is his name that is attached to “Jew Süss,” perhaps the most notoriously...
BONN, April 13—Veit Harlan, the motion‐picture director who gained international notoriety with his anti‐Semitic film “Jud Süss,” died of cancer in a hospital on Capri today.
In Walter and Adele Harlan’s Savignyplatz apartment, Veit Harlan was born on September 22, 1899, at 9:15 p.m. Like all of his siblings, he was baptized as a Protestant. A third son, Fritz Moritz, was born on January 26, 1901.
Veit Harlan (1899--1964) was one of Germany's most controversial and loathed directors. After studying with theatre and film pioneer Max Reinhardt and begi...
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Not having had a regular crew since the Third Reich had collapsed, the director now found a technical crew to join him on several projects, including film editor Walter Boos—who would rise to infamy with his sexploitation pictures in the 1970s—sound engineer Heinz Martin, and unit manager Woldemar Wasa-Runge.