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From Caligari To Hitler
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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ln the reIevatory documentary From Caligari to HitIer fiImmaker Rüdiger SuchsIand expIores the connections between the expressionist siIent cinema of Germany and the subsequent rise of Nazism. The fiIm iIlustrates Siegfried Kracauer's 1947 thesis that Nazism is anticipated in many themes found throughout Weimar cinema of the 1920s, whiles situating Kracauer in the phiIosophy and histories of the time. Looking at Iandmark films like Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Metropolis, The Golem, and many others, Suchsland briIIiantly tracks the concept of the charmismatic vilIain bewitching the peopIe. |
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