Hitler: A Film from Germany
1977 · 7h 22m · N/A
Documentary, Drama
Directed by
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Overview
Documentary film that examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich, incorporating puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. The director, who grew up under Nazi tyranny, ruminates on good and evil and the rest of humanity's complicity in the horrors of the holocaust.
Director and cast
- Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Director
- Harry Baer as Junger Ellerkamp
- Heinz Schubert as Zirkusdirektor, Himmler, Himmler-Puppenspieler, Hitler
- Peter Kern as Mörder aus „M“, Göring-Puppenspieler, Alter Ellerkamp, SS-Mann, Fremdenverkehrsdirektor
- Hellmut Lange as Hitlers Kammerdiener, Goebbels-Puppenspieler, SS-Mann
- Rainer von Artenfels as Jahrmarkt-Ausrufer, Hitler-Puppenspieler, Junger Goebbels, Schüler des Kosmologen, SS-Mann
- Peter Moland as Astrologe, Speer-Puppenspieler, SS-Mann
- Johannes Buzalski as Hitler als Anstreicher, Eva Braun-Puppenspieler, Mann der Gesellschaft 1923
- Alfred Edel as Stimmen der Leute, Mann der Geschichte 1923
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