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Hitler's Hollywood

Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.

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Rüdiger Suchsland

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documentary, history

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$43,766

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N/A

Awards

1 win & 5 nominations

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Just three days after seizing power - Hitler's Hollywood

Just three days after seizing power

A submarine film shot
during the Weimar Republic - Hitler's Hollywood

A submarine film shot during the Weimar Republic

Silently.
No movement in the submarine. - Hitler's Hollywood

Silently. No movement in the submarine.

A film steeped
in a mythical yearning for death. - Hitler's Hollywood

A film steeped in a mythical yearning for death.

Our fives no longer belong to us. - Hitler's Hollywood

Our fives no longer belong to us.

We have to go on for as long
as there is still breath in us. - Hitler's Hollywood

We have to go on for as long as there is still breath in us.

The regime did not celebrate life, - Hitler's Hollywood

The regime did not celebrate life,

The propaganda events
of the annual memorial for the dead - Hitler's Hollywood

The propaganda events of the annual memorial for the dead

At the party celebrations,
witch's sabbaths of dehumanised masses. - Hitler's Hollywood

At the party celebrations, witch's sabbaths of dehumani...

Above all, in the magically illuminated
dark of night, - Hitler's Hollywood

Above all, in the magically illuminated dark of night,

Film was the Hitler regime's primary
media of communicating with the masses. - Hitler's Hollywood

Film was the Hitler regime's primary media of communica...

I know... - Hitler's Hollywood

Farewell - Hitler's Hollywood

A number of films are drowning
in scenes of yearning for death. - Hitler's Hollywood

A number of films are drowning in scenes of yearning for dea...

A Fascist philosopher wrote of
"being towards death". - Hitler's Hollywood

A Fascist philosopher wrote of "being towards death&quo...

It was in this glamorous mise-en-scéne
of death, - Hitler's Hollywood

It was in this glamorous mise-en-scéne of death,

Every death was a happy death
in Nazi cinema - Hitler's Hollywood

Every death was a happy death in Nazi cinema

I would love to perish
on a hill of sacrifice - Hitler's Hollywood

I would love to perish on a hill of sacrifice

To bleed the blood of my heart - Hitler's Hollywood

To bleed the blood of my heart

We have won the battle. - Hitler's Hollywood

We have won the battle.

For you, sweet one!
Not one too many has fallen.” - Hitler's Hollywood

For you, sweet one! Not one too many has fallen.”

Still the world does not collapse - Hitler's Hollywood

Still the world does not collapse

What did these Germans dream about?
They clearly dreamt of idylls: - Hitler's Hollywood

What did these Germans dream about? They clearly dreamt of i...

What is striking about Nazi cinema
is a total lack of irony. - Hitler's Hollywood

What is striking about Nazi cinema is a total lack of irony.

That German laughter
that the world was soon to fear: - Hitler's Hollywood

That German laughter that the world was soon to fear:

The key figure of Nazi film politics
was Joseph Goebbels. - Hitler's Hollywood

The key figure of Nazi film politics was Joseph Goebbels.

The Propaganda Minister;
"patron of German film". - Hitler's Hollywood

The Propaganda Minister; "patron of German film".

The highest ranking PR man
of the totalitarian state. - Hitler's Hollywood

The highest ranking PR man of the totalitarian state.

He controlled radio, press,
and every area of art. - Hitler's Hollywood

He controlled radio, press, and every area of art.

Cinema was most important to him.
He made it his personal affair - Hitler's Hollywood

Cinema was most important to him. He made it his personal af...

There was one real auteur
in the Nazi state: - Hitler's Hollywood

There was one real auteur in the Nazi state:

Goebbels vigorously stamped
his own style on the regime. - Hitler's Hollywood

Goebbels vigorously stamped his own style on the regime.

To some extent, the whole Third Reich
is Goebbels' film, Goebbels' oeuvre. - Hitler's Hollywood

To some extent, the whole Third Reich is Goebbels' film...

Goebbels said, - Hitler's Hollywood

Propaganda has just one objective, - Hitler's Hollywood

Propaganda has just one objective,

Alluring people into an idea
50 in the end they are captivated by I, - Hitler's Hollywood

Alluring people into an idea 50 in the end they are captivat...

Political synchronisation. This meant that
over 2,000 film professionals - Hitler's Hollywood

Political synchronisation. This meant that over 2,000 film p...

Marlene Dietrich, who was already
working in Hollywood, left for good. - Hitler's Hollywood

Marlene Dietrich, who was already working in Hollywood, left...

Fritz Lang also left Germany
despite the new regime's flattery. - Hitler's Hollywood

Fritz Lang also left Germany despite the new regime's f...

In 1939, his crossing to America
was already booked, - Hitler's Hollywood

In 1939, his crossing to America was already booked,

War broke out and Pabst couldn't return. - Hitler's Hollywood

War broke out and Pabst couldn't return.

So he had to film in Germany
and arrange himself with those in power. - Hitler's Hollywood

So he had to film in Germany and arrange himself with those ...

The result of this balancing act
was "Paracelsus". - Hitler's Hollywood

The result of this balancing act was "Paracelsus".

What is propaganda?
Propaganda is enchantment, not force, - Hitler's Hollywood

What is propaganda? Propaganda is enchantment, not force,

Pabst shows a Mediaeval world
removed from the German present - Hitler's Hollywood

Pabst shows a Mediaeval world removed from the German presen...

For a moment, they seem to be
completely unified with their leader: - Hitler's Hollywood

For a moment, they seem to be completely unified with their ...

He fights against the mania
as well as ideologues - Hitler's Hollywood

He fights against the mania as well as ideologues

"Propaganda is totalitarian,
regressive and nihilistic. - Hitler's Hollywood

"Propaganda is totalitarian, regressive and nihilistic.

You remove any remaining substance
from meaningful terms, - Hitler's Hollywood

You remove any remaining substance from meaningful terms,

From beneath the tumult of propaganda
a skull appears.” - Hitler's Hollywood

From beneath the tumult of propaganda a skull appears.”

Since 1933, - Hitler's Hollywood

In exile, Kracauer wrote
his great historical work, - Hitler's Hollywood

In exile, Kracauer wrote his great historical work,

He also wrote an important
but little-known study - Hitler's Hollywood

He also wrote an important but little-known study

According to Kracauer,
cinema is a seismograph of its time, - Hitler's Hollywood

According to Kracauer, cinema is a seismograph of its time,

It has an underlying meaning
that can be exposed. - Hitler's Hollywood

It has an underlying meaning that can be exposed.

If that is true, and we believe it is, - Hitler's Hollywood

If that is true, and we believe it is,

What is the effect
of their myths and narratives, - Hitler's Hollywood

What is the effect of their myths and narratives,

What does German cinema tell,
that we have forgotten? - Hitler's Hollywood

What does German cinema tell, that we have forgotten?

The first effective,
if very obvious, propaganda film - Hitler's Hollywood

The first effective, if very obvious, propaganda film

Hans Steinhoff's film tells of Quex,
a working class boy. - Hitler's Hollywood

Hans Steinhoff's film tells of Quex, a working class bo...

The chaos of the images
and the musical references - Hitler's Hollywood

The chaos of the images and the musical references

People, listen to the call... - Hitler's Hollywood

People, listen to the call...

People, hear...
- People, hear the... - Hitler's Hollywood

People, hear... - People, hear the...

The film works
as a psychographics of fascism: - Hitler's Hollywood

The film works as a psychographics of fascism:

You see, there are things going on - Hitler's Hollywood

You see, there are things going on

But us proletarians,
we have to watch ourselves. - Hitler's Hollywood

But us proletarians, we have to watch ourselves.

You have to stand by us old ones. - Hitler's Hollywood

You have to stand by us old ones.

Quex questions the wild and
nonchalant life of the Young Communists - Hitler's Hollywood

Quex questions the wild and nonchalant life of the Young Com...

You don't even have a girlfriend.
- What's the point? - Hitler's Hollywood

You don't even have a girlfriend. - What's the poi...

The forest becomes the place
of initiation and music its means. - Hitler's Hollywood

The forest becomes the place of initiation and music its mea...

The idea of youth is sensuously,
erotically enhanced: - Hitler's Hollywood

The idea of youth is sensuously, erotically enhanced:

That is the very question.
Where does the boy belong? - Hitler's Hollywood

That is the very question. Where does the boy belong?

Then they were rascals.
- Youngsters are wonderful! - Hitler's Hollywood

Then they were rascals. - Youngsters are wonderful!

Youngsters have always been
a big mystery. - Hitler's Hollywood

Youngsters have always been a big mystery.

They ran away to trappers,
to gypsies. - Hitler's Hollywood

They ran away to trappers, to gypsies.

Quex finds recognition
through the Hitler Youth uniform. - Hitler's Hollywood

Quex finds recognition through the Hitler Youth uniform.

You've all gone mad! - Hitler's Hollywood

You've all gone mad!

Our flag is fluttering at us. - Hitler's Hollywood

Our flag is fluttering at us.

Kracauer wrote about the film, - Hitler's Hollywood

Kracauer wrote about the film,

The communists are portrayed not as
opponents but as comrades led astray. - Hitler's Hollywood

The communists are portrayed not as opponents but as comrade...

At the end, the ghostly columns
of SA soldiers marching - Hitler's Hollywood

At the end, the ghostly columns of SA soldiers marching

The politicisation
of the aesthetic - Hitler's Hollywood

The politicisation of the aesthetic

Her documentary of the Nuremberg Rally, - Hitler's Hollywood

Her documentary of the Nuremberg Rally,

Skilful choreography of attention,
initially as a pop concert. - Hitler's Hollywood

Skilful choreography of attention, initially as a pop concer...

Hitler is the star of a politics
that's become a mise-en-sceéne. - Hitler's Hollywood

Hitler is the star of a politics that's become a mise-e...

Shown only from behind, his effect
is seen in the faces of his fans. - Hitler's Hollywood

Shown only from behind, his effect is seen in the faces of h...

Models of Fascism
as if sculpted by Amo Breker - Hitler's Hollywood

Models of Fascism as if sculpted by Amo Breker

Which represents all Germany. - Hitler's Hollywood

Which represents all Germany.

And we'd now like you German boys - Hitler's Hollywood

And we'd now like you German boys

We want to be one nation - Hitler's Hollywood

We want to be one nation

Hitler's Hollywood poster

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Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.

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Director: Rüdiger Suchsland

Writer: Rüdiger Suchsland

Production: N/A

Genre: documentary, history

Year: 2017

MetaScore: 78/100

ImdbRating: 6.8

BoxOffice: $43,766

Released: 11 Apr 2018

Awards: 1 win & 5 nominations

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