ShalomNewYork.com

Top Israeli film director (”Beaufort,” “Campfire”) Joseph Cedar’s next film will tell the story of Veit Harlan, the leading German director who worked on behalf of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. As reported over the weekend on the Cinemascope blog, Cedar received the offer to direct the film from Rainer Grupe, a London producer of German origin who produced “Buffalo Soldiers”.
The film will tell the story of Harlan, whose most famous film was “Jud Suss” (1940) which gave a vicious anti-Semitic slant to the 1925 book of the same name. The book, by German-Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger, tells the story of Joseph Suss Oppenheimer, an 18th-century Jew who was a financial adviser executed amid anti-Semitism. Cedar’s new film will move between the two eras, following Harlan’s production of “Jud Suss” and also reclaiming the story of Oppenheimer as a victim who was persecuted for his business success and religious faith. haAretz.com