From Caligari to Hitler
2015
7.4 (27)
1 hr 54 min
German
What does Cinema know, that we don't?
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.)
- Status
- Released
- Production
- ZDF, LOOKSfilm, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, ARTE
Keywords
- republic of weimar
- director
- 1920s
- 1930s
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Top Cast
Rüdiger Suchsland as Self - Narrator (voice)
Hans Henrik Wöhler as Self - Narrator (voice)
Volker Schlöndorff as Self - Filmmaker
Fatih Akin as Self - Filmmaker
Thomas Elsaesser as Self - Film Historian
Eric D. Weitz as Self - Historian
Elisabeth Bronfen as Self - Cultural Critic
Fritz Lang as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Top Crew
Rüdiger Suchsland · Director, Writer
Michael Hartmann · Composer
Henrik Albrecht · Composer
Frank Reimann · Cinematographer
Harald Schmuck · Cinematographer
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