From Caligari to Hitler

From Caligari to Hitler

What does Cinema know, that we don't?

2015 1h 54mDir. Rüdiger Suchsland
7.4/ 10
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Overview

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into power. (Followed by Hitler's Hollywood, 2017.)

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Cast & Crew

Rüdiger Suchsland

Rüdiger Suchsland

Self - Narrator (voice)

H

Hans Henrik Wöhler

Self - Narrator (voice)

Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff

Self - Filmmaker

Fatih Akin

Fatih Akin

Self - Filmmaker

T

Thomas Elsaesser

Self - Film Historian

E

Eric D. Weitz

Self - Historian

E

Elisabeth Bronfen

Self - Cultural Critic

Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

F

Friedrich Ebert

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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