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2 unusual facts about The City Without Jews


A Day Without a Mexican

The City Without Jews: A prophetic Austrian Expressionist film from 1924 on what would happen to Vienna if all its Jewish population were removed.

The City Without Jews

The drama reaches a peak as he is committed to a psychiatric institution represented in Expressionist scenery, where in a claustrophobic and asymmetrically painted cell he sees himself threatened by Stars of David.


Ignaz Seipel

Seipel's antisemitic manners were the pattern for the character of Chancellor Dr. Schwerdtfeger in Hugo Bettauer's 1922 novel Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews), picturized by Hans Karl Breslauer in 1924.


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