Hitler: A Film from Germany

Hitler: A Film from Germany

442 mins | Drama | July 7, 1977

Not porno, not underground film, not a good entertainment film, not documentary, not social criticism nor Hollywood boulevard film or horror show: rather a journey into the midst of night, a hell ride to paradise lost, into our inner self. The mystery play of a historical dance of death in the black studio of our phantasy, the ascetic “Trauerarbeit” (toils of mourning) on the end of an epoch, millions of dead. In old times one would have called it an epos, a poem, requiem, oratorio; an attempt to find a new German identity through film. And also about the heritage of Hitler in our present world, something about the infernal victory of quantitative democracy; about the calmness of melancholy and the thesis that Hitler can only be defeated with Richard Wagner.

Hitler: A Film from Germany

442 mins | Drama | July 7, 1977

Hitler: A Film from Germany
Not porno, not underground film, not a good entertainment film, not documentary, not social criticism nor Hollywood boulevard film or horror show: rather a journey into the midst of night, a hell ride to paradise lost, into our inner self. The mystery play of a historical dance of death in the black studio of our phantasy, the ascetic “Trauerarbeit” (toils of mourning) on the end of an epoch, millions of dead. In old times one would have called it an epos, a poem, requiem, oratorio; an attempt to find a new German identity through film. And also about the heritage of Hitler in our present world, something about the infernal victory of quantitative democracy; about the calmness of melancholy and the thesis that Hitler can only be defeated with Richard Wagner.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers
Original title Hitler - Ein Film aus Deutschland
Directors Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Writers Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Cast

Harry Baer

as Junger Ellerkamp

Heinz Schubert

as Zirkusdirektor, Himmler, Himmler-Puppenspieler, Hitler

Peter Kern

as Mörder aus „M“, Göring-Puppenspieler, Alter Ellerkamp, SS-Mann, Fremdenverkehrsdirektor

Hellmut Lange

as Hitlers Kammerdiener, Goebbels-Puppenspieler, SS-Mann

Rainer von Artenfels

as Jahrmarkt-Ausrufer, Hitler-Puppenspieler, Junger Goebbels, Schüler des Kosmologen, SS-Mann

Peter Moland

as Astrologe, Speer-Puppenspieler, SS-Mann

Johannes Buzalski

as Hitler als Anstreicher, Eva Braun-Puppenspieler, Mann der Gesellschaft 1923

Alfred Edel

as Stimmen der Leute, Mann der Geschichte 1923

André Heller

as himself

Martin Sperr

as Himmlers Masseur

Peter Lühr

as Wissenschaftler / Kosmologe