속임수, 심리 분석, 이미지 형성에 타고난 재능을 보였던 아돌프 히틀러가 비천한 신분을 극복하고 세계 정복을 꿈꾸기까지의 과정을 탐구한 다큐멘터리.
바이마르 공화국의 시대를 통과했던 가장 중요한 흐름인 표현주의의 사조와 1920년대 독일영화에 대해 이야기한다. 독일영화 역사상 가장 중요한 시기 중 하나인 표현주의의 여파를 논하는 영화사에 대한 영화. (2015년 제16회 전주국제영화제)
20년대 말 경 베를린. 망명 러시아인 헤르만 헤르만은 아직도 자작나무, 말 썰매, 늑대 꿈을 꾼다. 그가 다닌 초콜릿 공장이 사양길에 접어들며 아내의 행동이 점점 그의 성질을 돋구게 된다. 그러던 어느 날 헤르만은 자기 자신의 존재감을 잃어버리고 남처럼 자신을 느끼게 된다. 헤르만이 술집에서 알게 된 돌팔이 정신과의사는 생명보험증서를 보여준다. 그는 완전 범죄를 시행하기로 결심한다. 그는 사람을 죽이고 스위스로 도망가고, 경찰이 결국 산간 마을에 있던 그를 체포한다.
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.
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly thereafter his family is evicted from their apartment. Now homeless, the family moves into a garden colony of sorts with the name “Kuhle Wampe.”
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.
Presents a unique and disturbing look at the rise of the Nazi party. The documentary, directed by Lutz Becker, attempts to remain as objective as possible, serving as a neutral observer of the years 1918 through 1933 in Germany. Via newsreel footage and clips of features from the era, the film offers a kaleidoscopic view of the many elements that fueled the rise of the Socialist Nationalist Party, including post-WWI poverty. Hitler occupies a central place in the documentary.
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...