From Caligari to Hitler

From Caligari to Hitler(2015)

05/28/2015 (US)Documentary, History1h 54m

7.4

"What does Cinema know, that we don't?"

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.)

Rüdiger Suchsland

Director

Rüdiger Suchsland

Writer

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Rüdiger Suchsland

Rüdiger Suchsland

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hans Henrik Wöhler

Hans Henrik Wöhler

Self - Narrator (voice)

Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff

Self - Filmmaker

Fatih Akin

Fatih Akin

Self - Filmmaker

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser

Self - Film Historian

Eric D. Weitz

Eric D. Weitz

Self - Historian

Elisabeth Bronfen

Elisabeth Bronfen

Self - Cultural Critic

Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Friedrich Ebert

Friedrich Ebert

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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Part of the From Caligari to Hitler Collection

Based on From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, a book by film critic and writer Siegfried Kracauer.

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