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Score: 74%( 24 votes )

Overview: 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)