FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 2014
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: In the relevatory documentary From Caligari to Hitler filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland explores the connections between the expressionist silent cinema of Germany and the subsequent rise of Nazism. The film illustrates Siegfried Kracauer's 1947 thesis that Nazism is anticipated in many themes found throughout Weimar cinema of the 1920s, whiles situating Kracauer in the philosophy and histories of the time. Looking at landmark films like Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Metropolis, The Golem, and many others, Suchsland brilliantly tracks the concept of the charmismatic villain bewitching the people.
• Cast: Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Fritz Lang, Volker Schlöndorff, Fatih Akin, Thomas Elsaesser, Eric D. Weitz, Elisabeth Bronfen, Alfred Abel, Elisabeth Bergner, Brigitte Borchert, Bertolt Brecht, Louise Brooks, Lya De Putti, Marlene Dietrich, Rudolf Forster, Willy Fritsch, Gustav Fröhlich, Greta Garbo, Gustaf Gründgens, Lilian Harvey, Brigitte Helm, Adolf Hitler, Friedrich Hollaender, Camilla Horn, Emil Jannings, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Siegfried Kracauer, Francis Lederer, Lotte Lenya, Peter Lorre, Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau, Pola Negri, Asta Nielsen, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Erich Pommer, Henny Porten, Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Ruttmann, Joseph Schildkraut, Max Schreck, Gustav Stresemann, Conrad Veidt, Josef von Sternberg, Kurt Weill, Robert Wiene, Billy Wilder
• Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Kino Lorber Incorporated
• Media Format: Movie