Hitler's Hollywood

Name: Hitler's Hollywood
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 11, 2018
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Gustaf Gründgens, Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Hermann Göring

2018

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: April 11, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Adolf Hitler, Gustaf Gründgens, Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Hermann Göring, Ilse Werner, Josef Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Marianne Hoppe, Udo Kier, Zarah Leander

Summary: 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, warFilmmaker 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 folk 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. Narrated by Udo Kier [Film Forum]… Expand

Director: Rüdiger Suchsland

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Kenneth Turan

May 9, 2018

A fascinating film that is as thorough as it is idiosyncratic. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Apr 11, 2018

One can’t watch this film and not think of events in the world today. How did the German nation get so caught up in the Nazi mythology that it plunged willingly toward its own destruction? Obviously being seduced away from a clear comprehension of reality into self-regarding mass fantasy was a big part of it. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Apr 12, 2018

Providing important historical and sociological context, Hitler's Hollywood emerges as a compelling cinematic essay that should be essential viewing for cinephiles and history buffs alike. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Nov 29, 2018

Drily narrated by Udo Kier, Hitler’s Hollywood is not a film about the rise of Nazism, nor even a linear history of the era’s cinema. Rather, it seeks to capture its spirit, interrogate its aesthetics and finally, to try to understand the insidious power of its propaganda. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Apr 10, 2018

Rüdiger Suchsland’s film is a master class in the relationship between image production and ideology writ large. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Apr 11, 2018

The most charged implication of Hitler’s Hollywood is that artistry enabled the Third Reich. Read full review

The Film Stage Tony Hinds

Apr 11, 2018

While intermittently fascinating in its attention to detail and its provocative thesis, Suchsland’s verbose essay film never successfully surpasses the realm of mere academic curiosity. Read full review

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