From Caligari to Hitler
By: Looks Filmproduktionen in Kooperation mit der Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; Buch und Regie Rüdiger Suchsland
Contributors: Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966
Published: 2014
Language: ger
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Motion pictures; National socialism and motion pictures; History and criticism; Psychological aspects
Description: Using a montage of footage from the highest quality restorations, Suchsland illustrates Siegfried Kracauer's 1947 thesis that the rise of Nazism is anticipated in many themes found throughout Weimar cinema, while situating Kracauer in the philosophy and histories of the time. Looking at films like "Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler," "Metropolis," "The Golem," and many others, Suchsland tracks the concept of the charismatic villain bewitching the people.
Notes: Based on the book "From Caligari to Hitler" by Siegfried Kracauer.

Cinematographers, Frank Reimann, Harald Schmuck ; editor, Katja Dringenberg ; music, Henrik Albrecht, Michael Hartmann.

DVD.

Dialogue in German and English with English subtitles.