From Caligari to Hitler (2015)

05/28/2015 (DE) • 1h 54m

Documentary, History

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.)

Top Billed Cast

Rüdiger Suchsland

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hans Henrik Wöhler

Self - Narrator (voice)

Volker Schlöndorff

Self - Filmmaker

Fatih Akin

Self - Filmmaker

Thomas Elsaesser

Self - Film Historian

Eric D. Weitz

Self - Historian

Elisabeth Bronfen

Self - Cultural Critic

Fritz Lang

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

republic of weimar

director

1920s

1930s

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