Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Zarah Leander, Ilse Werner, Marianne Hoppe, Gustaf Gründgens and many more. The Nazi films were not only technically perfectly made, they were emotional, awakened longings, allowed people to dream, offered refuge. The cinema was industrially prefabricated and manipulative. Perhaps the feelings these films aroused were often self-deception, false feelings. But they were feelings. This is the only way to explain the power of NS cinema... A sequel to “From Caligari to Hitler”.
Film journalist Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed.
Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Zarah Leander, Ilse Werner, Marianne Hoppe, Gustaf Gründgens and many more.
The Nazi films were not only technically perfectly made, they were emotional, awakened longings, allowed people to dream, offered refuge. The cinema was industrially prefabricated and manipulative. Perhaps the feelings these films aroused were often self-deception, false feelings. But they were feelings. This is the only way to explain the power of NS cinema...
A sequel to “From Caligari to Hitler”.