From Caligari to Hitler

1h 54m
DocumentaryHistory
7.4

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into power. (Followed by Hitler's Hollywood, 2017.)

Cast

Rüdiger Suchsland
Self - Narrator (voice)
Hans Henrik Wöhler
Self - Narrator (voice)
Volker Schlöndorff
Self - Filmmaker
Fatih Akin
Self - Filmmaker
Thomas Elsaesser
Self - Film Historian
Eric D. Weitz
Self - Historian
Elisabeth Bronfen
Self - Cultural Critic
Fritz Lang
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Ernst Lubitsch
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Friedrich Ebert
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Crew

Rüdiger Suchsland
Director, Writer
Katja Dringenberg
Editor
Frank Reimann
Director of Photography
Harald Schmuck
Director of Photography
Sebastian Göhs
Colorist
Martina Haubrich
Producer
Gunnar Dedio
Producer
Tobias Fritzsch
Sound Mixer
Jürgen Schulz
Sound Mixer
Tobias Schinko
Sound
Enrico Leube
Sound
Henrik Albrecht
Original Music Composer
Michael Hartmann
Original Music Composer
Anke Trojan
Graphic Designer

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