Ντοκιμαντέρ για τον τρόπο που το ταλέντο του Αδόλφου Χίλτερ σε χειραγώγηση, ψυχολογία και χτίσιμο εικόνας, τον έφερε από το μηδέν, σχεδόν στην κατάκτηση του κόσμου.

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.)

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just one man to world domination. A real-life horror story, an ominous tale of violence and deception, which takes place from 1919 to 1934. (Entirely made up of restored, colorized archival footage.)

Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social Democratic congressman and Jewish doctor Albert Goldman, and the two become a slightly odd couple. Albert is a sworn pacifist after his experiences in the First World War. Contrary to his beliefs he agrees to act as courier for his brother Edwin, who belongs to a radical communist cell.

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.

Το Kuhle Wampe διαδραματίζεται στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1930 στο Βερολίνο. Η ταινία ξεκινά με ένα μοντάζ πρωτοσέλιδων των εφημερίδων που περιγράφουν σταθερά αυξανόμενα ποσοστά ανεργίας. Ακολουθούν σκηνές ενός νεαρού άνδρα που αναζητά δουλειά στην πόλη και η οικογένεια συζητά για το απλήρωτο ενοίκιο. Ο νεαρός, αδερφός της πρωταγωνίστριας Άννυ, βγάζει το ρολόι χειρός και το πετάει από ένα παράθυρο γεμάτος απελπισία. Λίγο αργότερα η οικογένειά του βρίσκεται στο δρόμο με έξωση. Τώρα άστεγη, η οικογένεια μετακομίζει στο Kuhle Wampe, έναν καταυλισμό, μια ώρα έξω από το Βερολίνο.

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is considered a manifesto of German expressionism; a legend of cinema and a key work to understand the nature of the Weimar Republic and the constant political turmoil in which a divided society lived after the end of the First World War.

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to the castrating sexuality of Marlene Dietrich in Die Blaue Engel. The program provides an introduction to Weimar cinema, with Buchka's essay narrated over the images from film clips of 1920s era German films.

Η άνοδος του Αδόλφου Χίτλερ στην εξουσία, από την αφάνεια στα πρώτα χρόνια της Δημοκρατίας της Βαϊμάρης έως την απόλυτη κυριαρχία στο Ράιχσταγκ στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του ’30.

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances are changing dramatically these days in Germany, he gets new hope that things will again be going better for him...