The Judas of Tyrol

StarringCinematographyWilly WintersteinEdited byFriedel BuckowMusic byGottfried HuppertzDistributed byEuropa-Filmverleih82 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

The Judas of Tyrol (German: Der Judas von Tirol) is a 1933 German historical drama film directed by Franz Osten and starring Fritz Rasp, Camilla Spira, and Marianne Hoppe.^[1] It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.^[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Jacoby. Its Berlin premiere was at the Marmorhaus.

The film is set in the early nineteenth century, when the Tyrol was under foreign occupation. The Tyrolean folk hero Andreas Hofer hides in the village of St Leonhardt, whose residents are preparing to stage their annual Passion Play. The film focuses on Raffl, a young farmhand cast in the role of Judas. Raffl gradually loses the ability to distinguish between role and reality.

The film was directed by Franz Osten and composed by Gottfried Huppertz. Camilla Spira, who was Jewish, was interned in a concentration camp after making the film and left Germany after being freed.^[3]

Casino Film Exchange re-released the film in the United States in June 1941.^[3]

• Raffl (1984)

• Waldman, Harry (2008). Nazi Films In America, 1933-1942. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786438617.

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
• Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1933. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.

• The Judas of Tyrol at IMDb