Five hours of silent suffering you won't regret. Probably.
Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a night of pogrom in the Warsaw ghetto a Frenchman married to a Polish Jew is assassinated by members of a secret society.
Acting
Antonin Artaud before he lost his mind on screen.
Production
Absurd ambition for 1926. Five. Whole. Hours.
Director
Luitz-Morat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was among the longest narrative films ever made at the time—only rivaled by Abel Gance's Napoleon.
The Wandering Jew legend was wildly popular in 1920s European cinema, often reflecting contemporary antisemitic anxiety.
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