From Caligari to Hitler

What does Cinema know, that we don't?

  • Rated 7.5 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 2015
  • 1h 54m
  • Documentary
  • History

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
Starring
Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Volker Schlöndorff, Fatih Akin

Cast

  • Rüdiger Suchsland

    Rüdiger Suchsland

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Hans Henrik Wöhler

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Volker Schlöndorff

    Volker Schlöndorff

    Self - Filmmaker

  • Fatih Akin

    Fatih Akin

    Self - Filmmaker

  • Thomas Elsaesser

    Self - Film Historian

  • Eric D. Weitz

    Self - Historian

  • Elisabeth Bronfen

    Self - Cultural Critic

  • Fritz Lang

    Fritz Lang

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  • Ernst Lubitsch

    Ernst Lubitsch

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  • Friedrich Ebert

    Self - Politician (archive footage)

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