A career unparalleled in history
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 byJoachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- Language
- DE
- Released
- July 8, 1977
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Featuring
Cast & crew
Gert Westphal
Narrator (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Ernest Bevin
Self (archive footage)
Karl Brandt
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)
- Directed by
- Joachim Fest
Christian Herrendoerfer - Written by
- Joachim Fest
- Produced by
- Werner Rieb
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