From Caligari to Hitler
What does Cinema know, that we don't?
2015•1h 54m•7.5/10
DocumentaryHistory
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7.5/10(28)
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.)
Production
ZDF, LOOKSfilm, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, ARTE
Language
DE
Status
Released
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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)
Friedrich Ebert
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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