From Caligari to Hitler
What does Cinema know, that we don't?
7.5
28 votes
May 28, 2015
1h 54m
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.)
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Cast
Rüdiger Suchsland
Self - Narrator (voice)Hans Henrik Wöhler
Self - Narrator (voice)
Volker Schlöndorff
Self - Filmmaker
Fatih Akin
Self - FilmmakerThomas Elsaesser
Self - Film HistorianEric D. Weitz
Self - HistorianElisabeth Bronfen
Self - Cultural Critic
Fritz Lang
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Ernst Lubitsch
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)Friedrich Ebert
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
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