From Caligari to Hitler (2014)

  • AA
  • 10/27/2014 (AT)
  • Documentary, History
  • 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.)

Rüdiger Suchsland

Director, Writer

Cast

Rüdiger Suchsland's headshot

Rüdiger Suchsland

Self - Narrator (voice)
Hans Henrik Wöhler's headshot

Hans Henrik Wöhler

Self - Narrator (voice)
Volker Schlöndorff's headshot

Volker Schlöndorff

Self - Filmmaker
Fatih Akin's headshot

Fatih Akin

Self - Filmmaker
Thomas Elsaesser's headshot

Thomas Elsaesser

Self - Film Historian
Eric D. Weitz's headshot

Eric D. Weitz

Self - Historian
Elisabeth Bronfen's headshot

Elisabeth Bronfen

Self - Cultural Critic
Fritz Lang's headshot

Fritz Lang

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

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