Hitler's Hollywood

Hitler's Hollywood

2017 · 100 min · DE · 6.5 (33 votes)
Dir. Rüdiger Suchsland · Starring Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Rike Schmid, Ingrid Bergman, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels · Music Lorenz Dangel
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Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)

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This documentary dissects the chilling intersection of cinema and state control. It's an academic, yet deeply unsettling, examination of how movies were weaponized to shape a nation's psyche during a dark historical period.

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