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From Caligari to Hitler

What does Cinema know, that we don't?
May 28, 2015 · 1h 54m
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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.)

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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)
Directed by Rüdiger Suchsland

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ZDF, LOOKSfilm, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, ARTE
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DE

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