From Caligari to Hitler (2014) on DVD

Actor: Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Fritz Lang
Director: Rudiger Suchsland
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2014
Studio: Kino Lorber
Length: 118
Released: 01/09/18
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: DVD
Misc/Special Features: Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A

DESCRIPTION:

In the relevatory documentary From Caligari to Hitler filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland explores the connections between the expressionist silent cinema of Germany and the subsequent rise of Nazism. The film illustrates Siegfried Kracauer's 1947 thesis that Nazism is anticipated in many themes found throughout Weimar cinema of the 1920s, whiles situating Kracauer in the philosophy and histories of the time. Looking at landmark films like Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Metropolis, The Golem, and many others, Suchsland brilliantly tracks the concept of the charmismatic villain bewitching the people.