From Caligari to Hitler

Starring: Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Fritz Lang

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• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: January 2018
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Kino Video
• Director: Rudiger Suchsland
• Starring: Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Fritz Lang
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Psychological history of the German film

This book shows how the cinema paralleled and sometimes helped form the German psyche. Yet it is more than just a documentary. This brings you from the beginning of the industry to show what H-i-t-l-e-r inherited. However, the information carries far beyond the political dimension. I use it more for information on the film industry as a whole for that time, and the basis of what we inherited today. It is interesting that from the beginning, people complained that the film was too long and inclusive or too short and excluded characters from history or books. Two good parallel and overlapping timeline books for the era are "Cagliari's Children: The Film as Tale of Terror," which is a different view on the same subject, and "The UFA Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 23)" They tried to capture the feel of the time and of the German actors' attitude toward film in the movie "Shadow of the Vampire" (2001).