From Caligari to Hitler

Name: From Caligari to Hitler
Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2015-05-28
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Volker Schlöndorff, Fatih Akin, Thomas Elsaesser

“What does Cinema know, that we don't?”

2015

1h 54m

Documentary History

Director: Rüdiger Suchsland

Writer: Rüdiger Suchsland

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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.)

Cast

11 people

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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