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The City Without Jews is a 1924 Austrian Expressionist film by Hans Karl Breslauer, based on the novel of the same title by Hugo Bettauer. The film is one of the few surviving Expressionist films from Austria and has therefore been well researched. The film was first shown on 25 July 1924 in Vienna.
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One of the most macabre ironies of the 20th century is that the piece of cinema that can be described as the first Holocaust film was produced a long time before the actual Holocaust. And an even more macabre irony is that the film is, or at least was supposed to be, a satirical comedy. That film is *The City Without Jews*, a 1924 Austrian silent film directed by Hans Karl Breslauer. The film is based on the eponymo…More
