"Speer und er" (2005) TV mini-series

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

9 May 2005 (Germany)

Genre:

Biography | Drama | War

Plot:

A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted...

Plot Keywords:

Hitler | 1930s | Historic Figure | TV Mini-Series | Post War Germany

Awards:

4 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Sebastian Koch	...	Albert Speer (3 episodes, 2005)
Tobias Moretti	...	Adolf Hitler (3 episodes, 2005)
Dagmar Manzel	...	Gretel Speer (3 episodes, 2005)
Susanne Schäfer	...	Annemarie Kempf (3 episodes, 2005)
André Hennicke	...	Rudolf Hess (3 episodes, 2005)
Axel Milberg	...	Rudi Wolters (3 episodes, 2005)
Peter Rühring	...	Karl Doenitz (3 episodes, 2005)
Michael Gwisdek	...	Erich Raeder (3 episodes, 2005)
Joachim Bissmeier	...	Hans Flächsner (3 episodes, 2005)
Markus Boysen	...	Baldur von Schirach (3 episodes, 2005)
Götz Burger	...	Walter Funk (3 episodes, 2005)
Hannes Hellmann	...	Hermann Göring (3 episodes, 2005)
Elert Bode	...	Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (3 episodes, 2005)
August Zirner	...	Dr. Gilbert (2 episodes, 2005)
Florian Martens	...	Heinrich Himmler (2 episodes, 2005)
Bryan Addinall		(2 episodes, 2005)
Gottfried Breitfuss	...	Martin Bormann (2 episodes, 2005)
Andreas Conrad	...	Hans Frank (2 episodes, 2005)
Edmund Dehn	...	Robert Jackson (2 episodes, 2005)
Philip Harvey	...	Judge Francis Biddle (2 episodes, 2005)
Wilfried Hochholdinger	...	Josef Goebbels (2 episodes, 2005)
Robert Valentin Hofmann		(2 episodes, 2005)
Andreas Kallauch		(2 episodes, 2005)
Klaus-Dieter Koenig		(2 episodes, 2005)
Andy Rashleigh		(2 episodes, 2005)
Oliver Stern	...	Fritz Sauckel (2 episodes, 2005)
Michelle von Treuberg		(2 episodes, 2005)
Michael Wittmann		(2 episodes, 2005)
Murad Yazigarov		(2 episodes, 2005)

Also Known As:

"Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect" (UK)

Runtime:

270 min (3 parts)

Country:

Germany

Language:

German | English | Russian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:12 | Netherlands:16 (DVD version) | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-15 (self applied) (TV rating)

Filming Locations:

Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany

Company:

Bavaria Media GmbH

Trivia:

This was the first production to accurately recreate Adolf Hitler's study in the Berlin Reich Chancellery. Hitler's desk and all the other furniture in the room were meticulously replicated from period photographs at great time and expense.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Cinemania: I anodos kai i ptosi tou Nazismou" (2008)

Grand delusion of his life

Who was this man Albert Speer? What did Speer, minister of Armour, know about the cruel and brutal crimes of the Nazis? For which decisions he bearded charge of responsibility? In usual - and usual perfect and brilliant - method of film collage director Heinrich Breloer take a look behind the masks usually the human being Speer every times tried to vanish. In the middle of the plot of these three thrilling, historical very correct episodes (Third Reich, the Nuremberg judgment, the prison in Spandau) Breloer take the (nearly)amicable relationship between Speer and Adolf Hitler, who admires the giant, megalomaniac architectural projects very much. A terrific transformed, careful directed, wonderful acted (especially Sebastian Koch as Speer, Tobias Moretti as Hitler and Dagmar Manzel as Mrs. Speer) historical view, which shows Speer at first not as notary's manipulator but rather as a smart director of the grand delusion of his life. Try to see it, you will not be disappointed. German television of it's best: I give 8 out of 10 stars.