From Caligari to Hitler

What does Cinema know, that we don't?

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.)

Documentary History

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))

Ernst Lubitsch

(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))

Friedrich Ebert

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Joseph Goebbels

(Self - Politician (archive footage))