A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
Directed by Joachim Fest and Christian Herrendoerfer
based on novel or book
nazi
world war ii
biography
republic of weimar
historical figure
archive footage
media manipulation
nazism
1920s
1940s
nazi propaganda
1930s
eve of world war ii
film archives
adolf hitler
historical documentary
biographical documentary
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Cast
Gert Westphal
Narrator (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Eva Braun
Self (archive footage)
Neville Chamberlain
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
Édouard Daladier
Self (archive footage)
Karl Dönitz
Self (archive footage)
Albert Einstein
Self (archive footage)
Otto Gebühr
Frederick the Great (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Joachim Fest
Director
Joachim Fest
Writer
Popular Reviews
15 reviews
Dina Backe
4.9★ · 02/23/25
definitely still getting a bad grade on my history test
definitely still getting a bad grade on my history test
