From Caligari to Hitler

From Caligari to Hitler

2015/05/28 • Released • English, German

Documentary
History
7.4
1h 54m

What does Cinema know, that we don't?

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.)

Director : Rüdiger Suchsland

Casts
Rüdiger Suchsland

Rüdiger Suchsland

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hans Henrik Wöhler

Self - Narrator (voice)

Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff

Self - Filmmaker

Fatih Akin

Fatih Akin

Self - Filmmaker

Thomas Elsaesser

Self - Film Historian

Eric D. Weitz

Self - Historian

Elisabeth Bronfen

Self - Cultural Critic

Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Friedrich Ebert

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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