 It portrays the role of the Rothschild family in the Napoleonic wars.The Jewish Rothschilds are depicted in a negative manner, consistent with the anti-Semitic policy of Nazi Germany.The 1940 film has a similar title and a similar plot to a 1934 American film, "The House of Rothschild", starring George Arliss and Boris Karloff, that presented the Rothschilds in a more positive light.