From Caligari to Hitler

What does Cinema know, that we don't?

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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.)

Released: May 28, 2015

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Rüdiger Suchsland

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hans Henrik Wöhler

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Volker Schlöndorff

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