Theodor Herzl

About Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl or Theodor Herzl, Standard-Bearer of the Jewish People is a 1921 Austrian silent drama film directed by Otto Kreisler and starring Ernst Bath, Rudolph Schildkraut and Joseph Schildkraut. It portrays the life of Theodor Herzl, the pioneer of modern Zionism.

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Theodor Herzl or Theodor Herzl, Standard-Bearer of the Jewish People (German: Theodor Herzl, der Bannerträger des jüdischen Volkes) is a 1921 Austrian silent drama film directed by Otto Kreisler and starring Ernst Bath, Rudolph Schildkraut and Joseph Schildkraut. It portrays the life of Theodor Herzl, the pioneer of modern Zionism.

Cast

Ernst Bath as Theodor Herzl

Rudolph Schildkraut as Das ringende Israel

Joseph Schildkraut as Das leidende Israel

Josef Schreiter as Prophet

Rudolf Dietz as Dr. Samuel Goldblatt

Else Osterheim as eine junge russische Jüdin

Gita Lenart-Vago as eine spanische Jüdin

Axel Plessen as russischer Gutsbesitzer

Pippa Gettke as Altjüdische tänzerin

Heinz Altringen as König von Spanien

Ludwig Donath as Prinz Eugen

Eugen Preiß as Pope Leo XIII

James Battle as Sultan Abdulhamid II

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Notable quotes

“Were I to sum up the Basel Congress in a word — which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly — it would be this: At Basel, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years, certainly in fifty, everyone will know it.”
— Herzl Diary entry (3 September 1897), a few days after the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, as quoted in 'Nonstate Nations in International Politics: Comparative System Analyses (1977) by Judy S. Bertelsen, p. 37; 50 years after writing this in his diary, the state of Israel was established.
“Let me tell you that my friend and I do not discriminate between humans. We do not ask what race or what religion he is from. He has to be a human being. That is all that's important for us.”
— Altneuland (1902)
“Palestine is our ever-memorable historic home. The very name of Palestine would attract our people with a force of marvellous potency. If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake to regulate the whole finances of Turkey. We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.”
— II : The Jewish Question

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