The movie was rejected at Berlinale for a good reason. Moritz Bleibtreu, an – in my eyes overbooked yet middle class actor – played Dr. Goebbels as badly as a character can be played. There are basically three ways he could have approached his role as Dr. Goebbels: precisely sticking to the historic figure (e.g. Bruno Ganz in "Der Untergang"), a parody / mockery (Charly Chaplin in "The Great Dictator") and his own independent interpretation (Robert Carlyle in "The Rise of Evil"). He was not capable to choose any of them and attempted a rather embarrassing mix. As we know from the few YouTube movies showing the real Goebbels, this man was able to speak very clearly and well accentuated, carefully pronouncing each word with his slight "Rheinland" accent. Bleibtreu is attempting to imitate this accent, but since he obviously never has learned to pronounce clearly (a talent now too often missing at modern German actors) it only sounds funny, but not like Goebbels. It is also a well-known fact that Gobbels limped slightly, the accent is on "slightly", yet Bleibtreu plays him as an almost invalid! At other times he forgets to limb at all! The third and in my eyes most despicable fact is Bleibtreus "over-acting" in a movie which is about the very magic of not overacting! (like Marian as Jud Süß). He is shouting, playing a roaring and rampaging moron who tries to appear devilish and only makes himself a laughing stock as an actor. By the way, the blow-job Britta is giving Gobbels was cut out in the German cinema version. Historic facts have been "klittered" (German word, meaning "gluing together what every you can find") in an extreme way. Too many wrong mistakes for writing them down. The movies deserve 2 stars at max and only for the fact that Ferdinand Marian was so exceptionally well played by Tobias Moretti. I can only recommend buying the real "Jud Süß" at Amazon.com to compare.
Review of Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen
