From Caligari to Hitler (2015)

7.4/10 114 min Documentary History

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.)

Cast

Rüdiger Suchsland

Self - Narrator (voice)

Volker Schlöndorff

Self - Filmmaker

Fatih Akin

Self - Filmmaker

Fritz Lang

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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