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Moloch

Original title: Molokh
  • 1999
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
2.5K
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Moloch (1999)
Drama

In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone, when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone, when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone, when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.

  • Director
    • Aleksandr Sokurov
  • Writers
    • Yuriy Arabov
    • Marina Koreneva
  • Stars
    • Elena Rufanova
    • Eva Mattes
    • Leonid Mozgovoy
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    2.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Aleksandr Sokurov
    • Writers
      • Yuriy Arabov
      • Marina Koreneva
    • Stars
      • Elena Rufanova
      • Eva Mattes
      • Leonid Mozgovoy
    • 23User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 8 nominations

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    Leonid Mozgovoy in Moloch (1999)
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    Elena Rufanova
    • Eva Braun
    Eva Mattes
    Eva Mattes
    • Eva Braun
    • (voice)
    Leonid Mozgovoy
    Leonid Mozgovoy
    • Adolf Hitler
    Peter Fitz
    • Adolf Hitler
    • (voice)
    Irina Sokolova
    Irina Sokolova
    • Dr. Josef Goebbels
    • (as Leonid Sokol)
    Gerd Wameling
    • Dr. Josef Goebbels
    • (voice)
    Yelena Spiridonova
    • Magda Goebbels
    Maud Ackermann
    • Magda Goebbels
    • (voice)
    Vladimir Bogdanov
    Vladimir Bogdanov
    • Martin Bormann
    Udo Kroschwald
    • Martin Bormann
    • (voice)
    Anatoliy Shvederskiy
    Anatoliy Shvederskiy
    • Priest
    Friedrich W. Bauschulte
    • Priest
    • (voice)
    Franco Moscon
    • Nazi Officer
    Natalya Nikulenko
    Rosina Tsidulko
    Rosina Tsidulko
    • Director
      • Aleksandr Sokurov
    • Writers
      • Yuriy Arabov
      • Marina Koreneva
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      Official submission of Russia for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 72th Academy Awards in 2000.
    • Connections
      Featured in Cinemania: I anodos kai i ptosi tou Nazismou (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Siegfried's Funeral March from DIE GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
      By Richard Wagner

    User reviews23

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    9/10
    The Negation of the Anti-Hero
    If you remember Casablanca, you'll recall that Rick is a man who begins the film dead on the inside. His heart is broken, he is an alcoholic, he's perfectly neutral, and he doesn't stick his neck out for anybody. But as the film progresses Rick rediscovers his own life again and goes on to take a roll in the war.

    "Moloch" shows us this reverse story of the anti-hero Rick. Hitler is the negation of an anti-hero, someone who probably began life off-screen perfectly moral and alive. But his desires and fears have made him a monster, dead on the inside.

    People who destroy life do so because they are afraid of their own deaths. Any child who has a momentary fright in contemplating death may respond by killing an insect or a small animal and taking succor in the control over life and death. This is how evil might begin. Thus Sokurov films the vulnerable, underwear-clad Hitler of the everyday in a state of child-like fear of his own death, nearly all the time.

    But the real damnation of the killer is that in the end even perpetrating destruction will not ward off the ghosts of the mind. "Death is death," reminds Eva Braun, helpfully. Like Rick's Ilsa, she knows the whole time the true source and purpose of life, knows it down in her bones. But poor Eva has no Rick to work with, and eventually her efforts to liven Hitler only bring up her own worst fears.

    Pretty nice example of classical plot structure with negation of the anti-hero!
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    • field-jessel
    • Mar 30, 2010

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    • Release date
      • May 11, 2000 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Russia
      • Germany
      • Italy
      • Switzerland
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Molok
    • Filming locations
      • Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Lenfilm Studio
      • Zero-Film
      • Fabrica
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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