Financial Opportunists (1934)

Original title

Konjunkturritter

Directed by

Fritz Kampers

Genre

fiction film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1934 German comedy follows scheming characters looking to profit from uncertain times. The story uses humor to target Jewish people as financial manipulators.

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What happens

Financial Opportunists (German: Konjunkturritter) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Fritz Kampers and starring Weiss Ferdl, Sabine Peters and Hans Adalbert Schlettow. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Alexander Mügge. The title was a well-known phrase to attack Jews, and was one of the first openly antisemitic films produced under the Nazi regime. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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