2015
7.4 (24 votes)
1h 54m
Official Website
Genres
Documentary
History
Production Companies
ZDF
LOOKSfilm
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung
ARTE
LOOKSfilm
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung
ARTE
From Caligari to Hitler (Von Caligari zu Hitler)
What does Cinema know, that we don't?
Overview
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.)
Key Crew
Producer: Martina Haubrich, Gunnar Dedio
Director of Photography: Frank Reimann, Harald Schmuck
Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
Writer: Rüdiger Suchsland
Top 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)
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