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1733 MAP OF GERMANY. ZOOM IN "STUTTGART" & DRAWING OF FORTIFIED CITY.
01 0- -- PORTRAIT OF NOBLEMAN IN ORNATE FRAME ON WALL OF CASTLE. TILT DOWN TO PORTLY DUKE KARL ALEXANDER OF WUTTENBERG (WALTER SLEZAK-TYPE CHARACTER) WITH HAND ON CONSTITUTION TAKES OATH TO BEGIN HIS REIGN AS LEADER OF CITY. GROUP OF OFFICIALS AROUND TABLE.
01 02 -- CU COUNSELOR STURM ADMINISTERS OATH.

YOUNG MAN PLAYS HARPSICHORD AS FIANCEE STANDS BEHIND HIM & SINGS.
SHE FONDLES HIS HAIR, KISSES HIS FOREHEAD. THEY KISS PASSIONATELY.
01 0- 00 STURM ENTERS & KISSES HIS DAUGHTER ON FOREHEAD AS SHE LEAVES ROOM.
PATS YOUNG MAN ON HEAD AS HE READS FABER'S SONG BOOK.

GROUP OF WOMEN DRESSED IN THEIR FINEST ENTER BALLROOM & BOW AS PORTLY DUKE ENTERS & WALKS TOWARD WOMEN GREETING ONE WITH OPEN ARMS & KISS HER ON LIPS. WHISPERS WORDS IN HER EAR.
01 06 -- DUKE WALKS OUT ON BALCONY & LOOKS DOWN AT HUGE CROWD OF CITIZENS & SOLDIERS IN STREET WHO CHEER HIM. OTHER OFFICIALS JOIN HIM ON BALCONY.
01 06 -- TILT DOWN TO HUGE COAT OF ARMS ON BALCONY

JEWISH GETTO STREET SCENE. SHORT JEWISH MERCHANT (BUTCHER?) WITH APRON, FUR CAP, DIRTY FACE HAS CONVERSATION WITH ELDERLY JEWISH MAN WITH WHITE BEARD LOOKING OUT WINDOW ABOVE STORE WITH WOMAN AT HIS SIDE.

SHOWS ANNOYANCE & PULLS BACK ON THE NECKLACES WHEN TOLD HE CANNOT GO TO STUTTGART BECAUSE JEWS ARE BANNED THERE. COURTIER TELLS HIM HE CAN GO IF CAN DISGUISE HID OBVIOUS JEWISHNESS
01 09 -- CU SINISTER FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

CU DISGUISED AS NOBLEMAN RIDING IN CARRIAGE WITH BEARD
01 1- -- CU HORSES PULLING CARRIAGE.

ABOVE VIEW SPEEDING CARRIAGE VEERS OFF ROAD TO PASS SMALLER CARRIAGE WITH WOMAN DRIVER.
01 11 -- CU ANNOYED WOMAN DRIVER STOPS CARRIAGE, SHAKES HEAD IN DISBELIEF.

GETS LUGGAGE FROM OVERTURNED CARRIAGE, YELLS AT DRIVER, WALKS TO ROAD WHERE HE MEETS WOMAN OF CARRIAGE PASSED. SHE STOPS & OFFERS HIM RIDE TO CITY. TURNS ON HIS CHARM TO WOMAN

CU GUARD CAPTAIN AT GATE CHECKS TRAVELERS' PAPERS. OPENS SEMAPHORE TO LET THEM IN.
01 1- -- CU WOMAN BEING CHARMED BY MAN IN CARRIAGE. MAKES PASS AT HER.
SHE BRUSHES HIM OFF

YOUNG COUPLE WATCH FROM LIVING ROOM AS SUSS TALKS TO STURM ASKING FOR HER HAND IN MARRIAGE. YOUNG APPROACHES THEM IN FOYER & ANGERS SUSS WHEN HE IDENTIFIES HOM AS JEW
01 1- -- CU FACIAL EXPRESSION OF ANGER, HATE AS HE RESPONDS. GLARES LUSTFULLY AT WOMAN

ABOVE VIEW BALLET DANCERS TWIRLING IN THEIR WIDE SKIRTS.
01 17 -- TILT DOWN TO GROUND LEVEL AS ONE DANCER BLOWSKISSES TO BALCONY ABOVE.
01 17 -- DUKE LEANING OVER BALCONY, FLIRTS WITH DANCER.

SUSS SPEAKS TO DUKE & CONVINCES HIM TO GIVE HIM CERTAIN POWERS.
TELLS HIM HOW HE CAN GET RICH THROUGH TAXATION. DUKE IS IMPRESSED.

VARIOUS SCENES FAMILY SPEAK OF JEW SUSS POWER. YOUNG MAN SO ANGERED HE CRUSHES FEATHER QUILL IN HAND.

TILT UP FROM RUBBLE OF HOME ON GROUND TO BLACKSMITH HAMMERING OUT TOOLS IN WHAT'S LEFT OF HIS SHOP WHICH IS HALF TORN DOWN.
FACADE REMOVED EXPOSING UPPER AND LOWER BEAMS WITH SOLDIERS WITH RIFLES POSTED IN EACH EXPOSED ROOM. ANGRY CROWD WATCHING.

ELDERLY MAN WITH WIFE & TWO GROWN DAUGHTERS SEATED AT TABLE HAVING DINNER, TALKING OF JEWS.

DUKE & SUSS LOOK OVER & FLIRT WITH PRETTY WOMEN AT BALL.
SUSS GLARES LUSTFULLY AT DOROTHEA WHO IS THERE.
01 -- -- SUSS DANCES WOMAN INTO ANTE ROOM WHERE DUKE IS TRYING TO MAKE OUT WITH YOUNG WOMAN. JEWISH AIDE CLOSES DOOR BEHIND THEM.
01 -- -- SUSS AND DOROTHEA CONTINUE DANCING IN PRIVATE ROOM UNTIL HE MAKES PASS AT THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN. SHE RUNS OUT OF ROOM TO HER FIANCEE

FABER CONFRONTS SUSS WHILE HE IS PLAYING CARDS WITH WOMAN ON HIS LAP.
01 3- -- CU FABER INSULTS SUSS ABOUT HIS BEING JEW. THEY COME TO BLOWS.
FABER RUNS OUT OF MANSION.
01 3- -- SUSS GOES TO DUKE ABOUT FABER. CHARMS DUKE INTO GIVING HIM MORE POWERS AND TO LIFT THE BAN OF JEWS TO CITY OF WUTTENBERG.

SUSS WATCHES HANGING FROM BALCONY WITH WOMAN ALONGSIDE HIM.
PEOPLE FROM WINDOWS & IN STREET START YELLING ANTI-JEWISH SENTIMENTS AT HIM.

GROUP OF COUNSELORS GO TO VISIT DUKE TO COMPLAIN. CHIEF COUNSELOR IS MET OUTSIDE DUKE'S DOOR BY HUGE BLACK SERVANT WEARING TURBAN &
EARRING WHO LETS HIM IN
01 3- -- DUKE AT HIS ELABORATE DESK GRACIOUSLY MEETS WITH COUNSELOR. PATS HIM ON FACE LIKE LITTLE CHILD AS HE SMOKES LONG PIPE. COUNSELOR TELLS OPULENT DUKE OF HIS CONCERNS ABOUT THE JEWS AND THE NEW TAXATION.

SUSS IS SUMMONED TO DUKE'S OFFICE.
01 40 -- CU JEWISH AIDE MUMBLES PRAYERS.
01 4- -- SUSS ENTERS DUKE'S OFFICE & ADVISES HIM OF COUP TO MAKE HIM ABSOLUTE MONARCH AND TO FURTHER EMPOWER SUSS. DUKE IS IMPRESSED WITH THE SUGGESTION, WALLOWS IN IT.

RABBI IN OBSERVATORY PEERING AT SKY THROUGH GIANT TELESCOPE.
DUKE, SUSS AND BLACK SERVANT ENTER ROOM. RABBI TELLS OF FAVORABLE SIGHTINGS FOR DUKE. HAS DUKE PEER AT STARS THROUGH TELESCOPE.

VARIOUS SCENES YOUNG COUPLE IN CHURCH GETTING MARRIED. WORRIED FATHER & OTHERS IN CHURCH WATCHING CEREMONY

JEWISH AIDE AND MAGISTRATE FACE STURM WITH CHARGES.

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL MEET TO DISCUSS DUKE'S ARBITRARY GRAB FOR POWER. FABE ADDRESSES THEM. COUNCIL AGREES TO CONFRONT DUKE.

COUNCILMAN RODER TRIES TO DISSUADE DUKE'S GRAB FOR POWER. DUKE GOES INTO ANGRY TIRADE & DISMISSES HIM. DUKE FALLS BACK INTO HIS THRONE-LIKE CHAIR LOOKING EXHAUSTED AND UNSURE. SUSS REASSURES HIM.
DUKE BEGINS TO HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT SUSS'S ADVISE.

VARIOUS SHOTS HEBREW SERVICE IN SYNAGOGUE. TRADITIONAL ROBES,
SINGING & CHANTING. SUSS IN SHADOWS SUMMONS RABBI WHO LEAVES ALTAR TO SPEAK TO SUSS.
02 0- -- GROUPS OF RABBIS SINGING, NODDING.
02 0- -- CU SUSS TALKING TO ELDERLY RABBI. SUSS JOIN IN THE SERVICE.

YOUNG FABER MEETS SECRETLY WITH REBELLIOUS COUNCIL AND FOLLOWERS.
THEY SEND HIM ON SECRET MISSION.

SUSS TRIES TO GET HIM TO TELL OF SECRET MISSION. WHEN HE REFUSES, SUSS SENDS HIM TO DUNGEON TO BE TORTURED.

MAN IS TAKEN TO TORCHER CHAMBER & SHOWN TORTURE DEVICE WHICH CRUSHES FINGERS.

CU MAN SCREAMS LOUDLY AS THEY CRUSH HIS FINGERS.
02 -- -- WOMAN HEARS SCREAMS & ALLOWS SUSS TO SEDUCE HER IN EXCHANGE FOR HUSBAND'S RELEASE. SUSS THROWING GIRL ON BED.
02 -- -- JEWISH AIDE ORDERS JAILERS TO RELEASE MAN.
02 -- -- DISHEVELLED WOMAN RUNNING THROUGH FIELD IN HYSTERICAL STATE.

MAN CARRYING LIMP BODY OF GIRL. OUTRAGED, REBELLIOUS CROWD FOLLOW HIM TO HOME OF SUSS.
02 2- -- CALLS OUT HIS NAME. COUNCIL LEADER BREAKS THROUGH CROWD & SEES BODY IN MAN'S ARMS. TELLS HIM "THE JEW DID THIS".
02 2- -- CU SHOTS ANGRY CROWD CALLING FOR JUSTICE.
02 2- -- CROWD SMASH DOOR WITH FARM IMPLEMENTS.

SUSS & ELITE GROUP ON BALCONY WATCHING FIREWORKS LIGHT UP NIGHT SKY. LARGE GROUP OF ELITE WATCH FROM PORCH OF MANSION UNAWARE OF IMPENDING REBELLION.

DUKE WITHOUT WIG LIES ON DIVAN FANNING HIMSELF AND IN STATE OF EXHAUSTION AND PARANOIA. HELPED UP BY HUGE BLACK ARABIAN SERVANT AND SUSS. SUSS TRIES TO CALM HIM DOWN.
02 2- -- SUSS & DUKE SIT ON SOFA DRINKING CHAMPAIGN AS BLACK SERVANT POURS IT. SUSS GETS DUKE DRUNK. HAS HIM LAUGHING.
02 2- -- DUKE THROWS CHAMPAIGN INTO SUSS' FACE. THROWS GLASS TO GROUND.
SERVANT HANDS DUKE HIS WIG TO FACE REBELLION LEADERS WHO ARRIVE AT HIS MANSION.

FABER SEES SUSS TRYING TO LEAVE SCENE & HAS HIM TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.
02 3- -- CU EXPRESSION OF FEAR ON SUSS' FACE AS HE REALIZES HIS GAME IS UP.
02 3- -- CU DOWNTRODDEN FACE OF SUSS WITH UNKEMPT BEARD AS HE STANDS IN COURT BEFORE JUDGE. ZOOM AWA SUSS IN PIT AS JUDGE SPEAKS.

CU SUSS WTIH HANDS TIED BEHIND HIS BACK ALMOST PASSES OUT AS SNOW FALLS ON HIM AND CROWD WATCHING IN SQUARE.

SUSS BEING RAISED IN CAGE AS HUGE CROWD IN SQUARE WATCHES.
02 3- -- ABOVE VIEW CAGE REACHES TOP OF GALLOWS. OFFICIAL GIVES SIGNAL.
MAN BELOW PULLS OUT BOTTOM OF CAGE & SUSS FALLS THROUGH.
02 3- -- CU FEET DANGLING.

COUNCIL MAN STURM PRONOUNCES THAT ALL JEWS ARE TO BE GIVEN 30 DAYS TO LEAVE CITY OF WUTTENBERG.
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