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From Caligari to Hitler(2015)

Von Caligari zu Hitler

What does Cinema know, that we don't?

7.4(27)1h 54m2015-05-28

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.)

Director:: Rüdiger Suchsland
Writers:: Rüdiger Suchsland
Producers:: Martina Haubrich, Gunnar Dedio
Cinematographer:: Harald Schmuck
Composer:: Michael Hartmann
Production:: ZDF, LOOKSfilm, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, ARTE
Status:: Released

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Cast

Rüdiger Suchsland

Rüdiger Suchsland

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hans Henrik Wöhler

Hans Henrik Wöhler

Self - Narrator (voice)

Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff

Self - Filmmaker

Fatih Akin

Fatih Akin

Self - Filmmaker

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser

Self - Film Historian

Eric D. Weitz

Eric D. Weitz

Self - Historian

Elisabeth Bronfen

Elisabeth Bronfen

Self - Cultural Critic

Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Friedrich Ebert

Friedrich Ebert

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Self - Politician (archive footage)