The Followers (1985)
Overview
Combining archival footage with dramatized episodes based on real accounts, this film examines everyday life in Nazi Germany through the experiences of ordinary citizens. Directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz and Erwin Leiser, it traces how conformity, opportunism, fear, and routine compromise drew “ordinary” men and women into complicity with the regime, revealing the banality of evil at work in daily life.
Cast
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Gottfried John
Brocke
Karin Baal
Elisabeth Kurz
Horst Bollmann
Strobel
Felix von Manteuffel
Edith Teichmann
Regina Lemnitz
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