Synopsis
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)
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Cast
- Rüdiger SuchslandSelf - Narrator (voice)
- Hans Henrik WöhlerSelf - Narrator (voice)
- Rike SchmidSelf - Narrator (voice)
- Ingrid BergmanSelf - Actress (archive footage)
- Adolf HitlerSelf - Politician (archive footage)
- Joseph GoebbelsSelf - Politician (archive footage)
- Leni RiefenstahlSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- Brigitte HelmSelf - Actress (archive footage)
- Emil JanningsSelf - Actor (archive footage)
- Hans AlbersVarious Roles (archive footage)
Recommendations
- 90
Los Angeles Times
A fascinating film that is as thorough as it is idiosyncratic. - 88
RogerEbert.com
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. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 80
CineVue
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. - 75
Slant Magazine
Rüdiger Suchsland’s film is a master class in the relationship between image production and ideology writ large. - 70
The New York Times
The most charged implication of Hitler’s Hollywood is that artistry enabled the Third Reich. - 42
The Film Stage
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.
