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Hitler's Hollywood

Kino Lorber | Release Date: April 11, 2018

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, 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]

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Runtime:	105 min
Rating:	Not Rated
Official Site:	https://www.kinolorber.com/film/view/id/2948
Production:	ZDF/Arte
Genres:	Documentary
Country:	DE
Language:	German

Director	Credit
Rüdiger Suchsland	Director

Writer	Credit
Rüdiger Suchsland	Writer

Principal Cast	Credit
Adolf Hitler	Himself
Gustaf Gründgens	Various Roles
Hans Albers	Various Roles
Heinz Rühmann	Various Roles
Hermann Göring	Himself
Ilse Werner	Various Roles
Josef Goebbels	Himself
Leni Riefenstahl	Herself
Marianne Hoppe	Various Roles
Udo Kier	Narrator
Zarah Leander	Various Roles

Cast	Credit
Alfred Abel	Himself
Gustav Fröhlich	Himself
Leni Riefenstahl	Herself
Lída Baarová	Herself
Wilhelm Furtwängler	Himself
Willy Fritsch	Himself

Producer	Credit
Gunnar Dedio	Producer
Martina Haubrich	Producer