- Summary
- Set in Berlin in 1933, the film tells of the problems facing Germany's Jews after Hitler's rise to power through the story of a Jewish artist and professor, Arthur Levi. After his new painting, The Eternal Wanderer, is rejected by the academy and he is fired from his position, Levi's German fiancee leaves him. The figure of his father, the model for the Wanderer, steps from the painting to keep Levi from destroying his work before the Nazis can. Newsreel footage and footage from earlier period films is used to review Jewish hardship and perserverance throughout the centuries.
- Variant Title
- Vandernder Yid
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, [1999]
©1999
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin
- Edition
- Restored version
- Other Authors/Editors
- Roland, George.
Mestel, Jacob, 1884-1958.
Ben-Ami, Jacob.
Jewish American Film Arts (Firm)
National Center for Jewish Film.
- Notes
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Cataloged from new credits and the National Center for Jewish Film's website, as the original credits are lacking.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1933.
"Portions of reel one are missing. English subtitles have been added but some original [English] subtitles could not be removed. The opening segments of the film [which are missing] introduce Professor Arthur Levi, a Jewish artist of some renown in Germany, and Gertrude, the young German woman to whom he is engaged."
Jacob Ben-Ami, Jacob Mestel.
VHS.
In Yiddish with English subtitles.
