Conrad Veidt My Life

German actor Conrad Veidt is best remembered for playing Nazi Major Strasser in Casablanca In reality he was an ardent antifascist who left Nazi Germany for Britain falsely claiming to be Jewish in solidarity with his Jewish wife Using clips from Veidts films acclaimed director Mark Rappaport imagines the actor narrating his life and career from the silent eraincluding his leading roles in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and The Man Who Laughs through to his Hollywood years where he often played a Nazi