Harlan In the Shadow of Jew Suss

Nazi Veit Harlan is widely regarded as one of Germanys most controversial filmmakers, and in this documentary director Felix Moeller profiles this master of propaganda, chronicling his life and film career, particularly the works he made during the Holocaust. Additionally, Moeller uses candid interviews with Harlans descendants, examining the impact of the Third Reich and World War II, and the undeniable effect Harlans life and work had on future generations.

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Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Suss is a 2008 documentary film by German director Felix Moeller about one of the most notorious Nazi German filmmakers, Veit Harlan and his family. It focuses on the "wildly varying attitudes of Harlans children and grandchildren", and how they struggle even today with the legacy of their ancestors work.

The documentary also explores Harlans motivations for making Jew Suss, a film that The New York Times has called "perhaps the most notorious anti-Semitic movie ever made". Harlan was the only artist from the Nazi era to be charged with war crimes.

The film uses "never-before-seen archival footage, unearthed film excerpts, rare home movies and new interviews".

It is distributed in the U.S. by Zeitgeist Films in 2010.

Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß - required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure - save for Leni Riefenstahl - is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years. (Harlan's epic Kolberg was the basis for Inglourious Basterds's pivotal film-within-a-film Stolz Der Nation.) This documentary is an eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present; one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.