From Caligari to Hitler

From Caligari to Hitler 2015 Directed by Rüdiger Suchsland Von Caligari zu Hitler

What does Cinema know, that we don't?

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.)

Country Germany

Production Country Germany

Language German

Spoken Languages English , German

Gneres Documentary , History

Production Companies ZDF , ARTE , LOOKSfilm , Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung

Release Date 28 May 2015

114 mins

Cast

Rüdiger Suchsland Self - Narrator (voice)

Hans Henrik Wöhler Self - Narrator (voice)

Volker Schlöndorff Self - Filmmaker

Fatih Akin Self - Filmmaker

Thomas Elsaesser Self - Film Historian

Eric D. Weitz Self - Historian

Elisabeth Bronfen Self - Cultural Critic

Fritz Lang Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Friedrich Ebert Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels Self - Politician (archive footage)

Crew

Director

Rüdiger Suchsland

Writer

Rüdiger Suchsland

Producers

Martina Haubrich

Gunnar Dedio

Cinematography

Harald Schmuck

Frank Reimann

Composers

Michael Hartmann

Henrik Albrecht

Editor

Katja Dringenberg

Sound

Tobias Schinko

Enrico Leube

Tobias Fritzsch

Jürgen Schulz

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