Missing film footage found in a flea market in Paris depicting a 'city without Jews' will be restored and re-shown after thousands was raised in a crowdfunding project.

Based on the dystopian novel by Jewish publicist Hugo Bettauer, the film reels for Die Stadt ohne Juden 'The City Without Jews', were found by a French collector in October last year.

It was one of the most sought after missing reels in Austrian film history.

The Guardian reports the silent film is set after the First World War, in a German-speaking city where inflation is soaring and the inhabitants are turning on each other.

Film footage thought to have been lost was found in a flea market in Paris by a French collector

The City without Jews is set in a German-speaking city where high inflation is turning residents against each other

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The leaders are keen to find a scapegoat and announce that the people demand the expulsion of all Jews.

Though it sounds as if it could have been from a history book about the Third Reich, the film premiered in Vienna in 1924.

After the most successful crowd-funding bid in Austria's history, the film will be digitally restored and have a new score, before being shown in Vienna's concert hall in Autumn 2017.

On the crowdfunding website, We Make It, the Austrian Film Archive write: 'Disturbingly prophetic, it shows the cultural and economic impoverishment of a city following the expulsion of its Jewish population.

The Austrian Film Archive managed to raise more than £65,000 to restore the film and will show it next year

The film will also feature a new soundtrack. The team had to raise money quickly, as the fil footage is nitrate solution and sensitive

'A kind of presage, it was the first film in the world to show the expulsion of Jews that became a reality only a few years later, and the related political and social consequences.

'Today, Die Stadt ohne Juden challenges us, more than ever before, to keep the past in mind for the sake of the future and, therefore, to be aware.'

Because the film footage is nitrate, which is sensitive, the team had to be quick in their fundraising efforts.

They set a target of £65,000, or 75,500 Euros, enabling them to tackle the technically challenging project.

The team has exceeded its target, raising an addition 10,000 Eur.

A spokesman for the archive said the team had seen a huge boost in fundraising after the election of Donald Trump and the right-wing candidate losing in Austria

The same film, damaged or possibly censored, was found in the Dutch film museum in 1991, but this version has the original ending and more scenes

According to a spokesman for the organisation, the target was reached with the help of a huge donation by an anonymous Jewish organisation after Donald Trump's victory and a doubling of daily donations after the right-wing populist candidate was defeated.

A damaged version of the film, thought to have been censored or self-censored, was found in 1991 in a Dutch film museum.

The new edit contains the film's original ending and is thought to have politicised the message. It also adds detailed scene exploring social spheres of Jewish life in Vienna.

The film's director was assassinated in his office, while the man who played the film's Jewish protagonist ended up joining the Nazi party

Nikolaus Wostry, director of collections at the Austrian Film Archive, told the Guardian: 'Back when The City Without Jews was made, we had a very similar situation to the one we are in now. At the end of the first world war, a lot of people had been displaced by Russian forces in the north of the empire and were migrating south to Vienna, especially Jews from Bukovina and Galicia.

'Antisemitic feelings got a massive boost through this refugee crisis and all parties started to make politics with it.'

Hugo Bettauer, who wrote the novel of the same name, was assassinated in his office by a former member of the Nazi party, which was banned at that time, about a year after the film’s premiere.

Johannes Riemann, who played the film’s Jewish protagonist, Leo Strakosch, joined the Nazi party and in 1944 performed at a variety evening at the Auschwitz concentration camp.