"The Wandering Jew", or "The Life Story of Theodore Herzl", is a propagandized biography of the Austrian who is considered the founder of Zionism -- the political movement which resulted in the creation of the country Israel in what was Palestine. Mr.
This biopic of the life of Thedore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, is an earnest movie and shows the influences that caused him to seek a renewed homeland for Jews in what is now Israel. The movie spends, properly enough, a lot of screen time demonstrating anti-semitism in forms from accusations of well-poisoning to the Inquisition to the Dreyfus Case to demonstrate why Jews needed their own country.
