Hitler's Hollywood

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)

Cast

Rüdiger Suchsland

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Hans Henrik Wöhler

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Rike Schmid

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Ingrid Bergman

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Leni Riefenstahl

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Brigitte Helm

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Emil Jannings

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Hans Albers

as Various Roles (archive footage)

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