Hitler: A Career (1977)

07/08/1977 (DE) • 2h 30m

Documentary, History

A career unparalleled in history

Overview

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.

Top Billed Cast

Gert Westphal

Narrator (voice)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Ernest Bevin

Self (archive footage)

Karl Brandt

Self (archive footage)

Eva Braun

Self (archive footage)

Neville Chamberlain

Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Édouard Daladier

Self (archive footage)


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Status

Released

Original Language

German

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

based on novel or book

nazi

world war ii

biography

republic of weimar

historical figure

archive footage

media manipulation

nazism

1920s

1940s

nazi propaganda

1930s

eve of world war ii

film archives

adolf hitler

hitler's picture

historical documentary

biographical documentary

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