Credited cast: | |||
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Rolf Arsenius | ... | Narrator (original version) (voice) |
Bruno Ganz | ... | Narrator (German, subtitled English versions) (voice) | |
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Sam Gray | ... | Narrator (dubbed English version) |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Martin Bormann | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
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Karl Brandt | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as Dr. Karl Brandt) |
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Arno Breker | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
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Hermann Giesler | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
Joseph Goebbels | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as Josef Goebbels) | |
Heinrich Himmler | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
Adolf Hitler | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
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Wilhelm Keitel | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
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Viktor Lutze | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
Jeanne Moreau | ... | Narrator (French version) (voice) | |
Alfred Rosenberg | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
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Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered include: Hitler's epiphany while viewing Wagner's opera 'Rienzi', the rise of the homo-erotic Grecian/Nordic ideal, the parallels drawn between the 'degenerate' art of the cubists and dadaists and the mentally ill/physically deformed, the Nazi obsession with purity and cleanliness, and, finally, the descent of the Jewish people to the level of a virus/vermin. Written by Dawn M. Barclift
One of the best documentaries i have ever seen. The disecting of nazism and especially Hitlers various obsession of race, purity, strength, the german people and the ideas and architecture behind it all is nothing but brilliant.
So many excellent photos and films and so well "framed" through the music and the narrator that i cant even begin to describe the feeling you will get from seeing this masterpiece!
Just take my word for it - if you are historically interrested into nazism and its background you have to make time for this one here.