
1939
Linen From Ireland (banned by the Allies)
Leinen Aus Irland (Original Title)
The film is set in Bohemia and Vienna in 1909. Bohemian Linen Production, founded in 1751, has always employed poor, simple weavers, but the firm is going bankrupt. It is bought out by the Prague conglomerate Libussa—a symbol of unremitting corporate greed—who wish to import duty-free linen from Ireland (the threat of the British Empire) to Vienna, which will ruin Austrian weavers. Libussa’s all-powerful Jewish Secretary General, Dr. Kuhn, represents the spirit of Jewish Mammon, seeking, as he does, to dominate the European and global textile market
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“A very fine movie in which a stellar Siegfried Breuer depicts an unethical Jewish CEO. Unfortunately almost all American business leaders ( not just Jewish) place profits above all. National- Socialists counter this with their vision of capitalists and workers working for a common good together as one unit.There is nothing anti- British in this film. Excellent depiction of wasteful and do-nothing bureaucracies. The parallels to the present day are striking. National-Socialists realized and exposed the dangers of globalism to the working class back then. As to supposedly antisemitic portrayals of Jewish characters in this film, compare with Jewish stereotyping in American movies like “”American Pickle;” much worse than in German movies. I also think that the plot’s love story is very naive.”
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