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From Caligari to Hitler

74 %|May 28, 2015|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.)

Featured Crew

Martina Haubrich
Producer
Katja Dringenberg
Editor
Tobias Schinko
Sound
Anke Trojan
Graphic Designer
Tobias Fritzsch
Sound Mixer
Gunnar Dedio
Producer
Frank Reimann
Director of Photography
Henrik Albrecht
Original Music Composer

Cast

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Rüdiger Suchsland
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Hans Henrik Wöhler
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Volker Schlöndorff
Self - Filmmaker
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Fatih Akin
Self - Filmmaker
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Thomas Elsaesser
Self - Film Historian
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Eric D. Weitz
Self - Historian
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Elisabeth Bronfen
Self - Cultural Critic
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Fritz Lang
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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Ernst Lubitsch
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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Friedrich Ebert
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Joseph Goebbels
Self - Politician (archive footage)