From Caligari to Hitler

"What does Cinema know, that we don't?"

7.4(27 votes)

1h 54m

May 28, 2015

DocumentaryHistory

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.)

Status

Released

Production Companies

ZDF, LOOKSfilm, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, ARTE

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From Caligari to Hitler

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Top 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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