Power (1934)
Conrad Veidt: Josef Süss Oppenheimer
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Quotes
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Josef Süss Oppenheimer : Is the Duke guilty of her death?
Rabbi Gabriel : You are guilty of her death.
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Josef Süss Oppenheimer : So, you would try and escape me by dying, would you? But I won't let you die until you have listened to me. You... you killed my child, and as I faced you across her dead body, because I didn't spring at you and squeeze your butcher's throat, you believed you had escaped my vengeance - you wretched sot. This has been my vengeance - to help puff you up and make you dream of being a king, a Caesar, an Emperor, and then to show you what you really are. Just an absurd lump of flesh - utterly ridiculous, to yourself, and the whole world. And all the time, we could've been friends, Carl Alexander, if you had fostered in me the best, instead of the worst, there would have been no end of what we could've done together. You great prince and hero!
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Josef Süss Oppenheimer : It might not be opportune.
Rabbi Gabriel : Opportune? To save a Jew who is guilty of nothing but being a Jew.
