Discover
1,200 feature films were made in Germany’s Third Reich. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. Nearly seventy years after the end of the Nazi regime, more than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix Moeller (Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss) interviews German film historians, archivists and filmgoers in an investigation of the power, and potential danger, of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Utilizing clips from the films and recorded discussions from public screenings (permitted in Germany in educational contexts) in Munich, Berlin, Paris and Jerusalem, Moeller shows how contentious these 70-year-old films remain, and how propaganda can retain its punch when presented to audiences susceptible to manipulation.
Original Release
03/06/2014
US Release
05/13/2015
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hans Albers | (archive footage) |
Götz Aly | Himself / Self - Historian |
Elise Aulinger | (archive footage) |
Berta Drews | (archive footage) |
Stefan Drössler | Himself / Self - Filmmuseum Munich |
Walter Franck | (archive footage) |
Jörg Friess | Self - Zeughaus Cinema Berlin |
Heinrich George | (archive footage) |
Paul Hartmann | (archive footage) |
Heidemarie Hatheyer | (archive footage) |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hans Albers | (archive footage) |
Götz Aly | Himself / Self - Historian |
Elise Aulinger | (archive footage) |
Berta Drews | (archive footage) |
Stefan Drössler | Himself / Self - Filmmuseum Munich |
Walter Franck | (archive footage) |
Jörg Friess | Self - Zeughaus Cinema Berlin |
Heinrich George | (archive footage) |
Paul Hartmann | (archive footage) |
Heidemarie Hatheyer | (archive footage) |
Adolf Hitler | Self - Führer und Reichskanzler |
Emil Jannings | (archive footage) |
Karl John | (archive footage) |
Heinz Klingenberg | (archive footage) |
Egbert Koppe | Self - Federal Filmarchive Berlin Hoppegarten |
Zarah Leander | (archive footage) |
Johanna Liebeneiner | Herself / Self - daughter of Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
Sylvie Lindeperg | Historian, Université Paris-Sorbonne |
Wladimir Majer | (archive footage) |
Ferdinand Marian | (archive footage) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Felix Moeller | Producer |
Rolf Bergmann | Producer |
Amelie Latscha | Producer |
Sabine Mieder | Producer |
Christian von Behr | Producer |