Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world.
Cast
Mikhail Romm
Narrator (voice)
Marlene Dietrich
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Oswald Mosley
Self (archive footage)
Martin Bormann
Self (archive footage)
Willy Brandt
Self (archive footage)
Aristide Briand
Self (archive footage)
Cab Calloway
Self (archive footage)
Georges Clemenceau
Self (archive footage)
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Rudolf Hess
Self (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage)
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
Self (archive footage)
King Alfonso XIII of Spain
Self (archive footage)
King George V of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage)
King Gustaf V
Self (archive footage)
King Haakon VII
Self (archive footage)
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
Self (archive footage)
Albert Lebrun
Self (archive footage)
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Self (archive footage)
George Lincoln Rockwell
Self (archive footage)
Ernst Röhm
Self (archive footage)
Marika Rökk
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Julius Streicher
Self (archive footage)
Josef Thorak
Self (archive footage)
Ernst Thälmann
Self (archive footage)
Jūkichi Uno
Narrator (voice)
Paul von Hindenburg
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Mikhail Romm
Director, Writer, Editor
Maya Turovskaya
Writer
Yuriy Khaniutin
Writer
Izrail Tsizin
Script Editor
Valentina Kulagina
Editor
T. Ivanova
Assistant Editor
German Lavrov
Director of Photography
Sergei Linkov
First Assistant Director
Konstantin Osin
Second Assistant Director
Lev Indenbom
Assistant Director
Yuzef Rogozovskiy
Executive Producer
Viktor Zhanov
Camera Operator
Boris Pluzhnikov
Camera Operator
Yury Avdeev
Assistant Camera
Sergei Minervin
Sound Director
Boris Vengerovsky
Sound Director
Alemdar Karamanov
Original Music Composer
B. Baldin
Still Photographer
Ernst Henri
Script Consultant
Harii Stoychev
Assistant Director Trainee
Savva Kulish
Assistant Director Trainee
Emin Khachaturyan
Conductor
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