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Narrated by Udo Kier. Filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland suggests that the Third Reich was essentially an immersive movie starring the German nation, produced and directed by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Hitler’s Hollywood collages key films from the more than 1000 features the Nazis produced from 1933-1945: musicals, melodramas, romances, costume dramas, war films – and when the real war got tough, insanely lavish, over-the-top fantasies. The German volk were portrayed as happy and sporty with lives of exaggerated cheerfulness or, conversely, full of morbid yearning for a death that would serve the Fatherland. Hannah Arendt gives perspective and context: “One of the chief characteristics of modern masses… (is) they do not trust their eyes and ears, but only their imaginations. What convinces masses are not facts, not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the illusion.” It’s a frightening insight that could just as easily apply to the American political landscape today.
Original Release
02/23/2017
US Release
04/11/2018
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Rüdiger Suchsland | Narrator / Self - Narrator (voice) |
Rike Schmid | Voice over / Self - Narrator (voice) |
Hans Henrik Wöhler | Voice over / Self - Narrator (voice) |
Udo Kier | Narrator (USA version) |
Wilhelm Furtwängler | Self |
Joseph Goebbels | Self / Self - Politician (archive footage) |
Hermann Göring | Self |
Adolf Hitler | Self / Self - Politician (archive footage) |
Leni Riefenstahl | Self / Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
Ferdinand Marian | Various Roles (archive footage) |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rüdiger Suchsland | Narrator / Self - Narrator (voice) |
Rike Schmid | Voice over / Self - Narrator (voice) |
Hans Henrik Wöhler | Voice over / Self - Narrator (voice) |
Udo Kier | Narrator (USA version) |
Wilhelm Furtwängler | Self |
Joseph Goebbels | Self / Self - Politician (archive footage) |
Hermann Göring | Self |
Adolf Hitler | Self / Self - Politician (archive footage) |
Leni Riefenstahl | Self / Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
Ferdinand Marian | Various Roles (archive footage) |
Marika Rökk | Various Roles (archive footage) |
La Jana | Self |
Philip Dorn | Self |
Ingrid Bergman | Self / Self - Actress (archive footage) |
Anton Walbrook | Self |
Kristina Söderbaum | Self |
Magda Schneider | Self |
Pola Negri | Self |
Emil Jannings | Self / Self - Actor (archive footage) |
Margot Hielscher | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Gunnar Dedio | Producer |
Martina Haubrich | Producer |