Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into power. (Followed by Hitler's Hollywood, 2017.)
Casts Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Volker Schlöndorff, Fatih Akin, Thomas Elsaesser, Eric D. Weitz, Elisabeth Bronfen, Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, Friedrich Ebert
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
John Rabe
Hitler's Evil Science
Nie
Mirror
Memoirs of a Geisha
Land Without Bread
The Untouchables
Searching for Bong
Legionnaire
The Trap
Lost in La Mancha
City of Life and Death
Goodnight, Mister Tom
La Tragédie des Brigades Internationales
The Living
Man with a Movie Camera
Amelia
Bonhoeffer: Holy Traitor
Chariots of Fire
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2002
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.John Rabe
IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 2009
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.Hitler's Evil Science
IMDB 7 | May , 2019
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history to legitimize a hideous system and was an accomplice to its unspeakable crimes. The story of the Ahnenerbe, a sinister organization created to rewrite the obscure origins of a nation.Nie
IMDB 8.5 | Feb , 1978
The poverty of Slovak workers during the Great Depression during the Masaryk Republic reached such a level that it led to a well-organized strike. The capitalists and their minions tried by all means to break it. Even the workers who had not yet been elected soon recognized their place and supported the initiative of the communists, who selflessly led the strike movement. The poster-like, purely ideological story succumbs to paper-like dialogues and plots, and the narrative portrayal hardly convinces of the credibility of the whole story.Mirror
IMDB 8 | Mar , 1975
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.Memoirs of a Geisha
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 2005
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.Land Without Bread
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 1933
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.The Untouchables
IMDB 7.8 | Jun , 1987
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.Searching for Bong
IMDB 7 | Oct , 2015
Unlike our dream of becoming a great filmmaker, the movie boards that adults talk about are tough. We are looking for our idol, Bong Joon-ho...Legionnaire
IMDB 5.8 | Dec , 1998
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.The Trap
IMDB 6 | Apr , 1951
The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass layoffs during the economic crisis.Lost in La Mancha
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2002
Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.City of Life and Death
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 2009
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.Goodnight, Mister Tom
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1998
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.La Tragédie des Brigades Internationales
IMDB 8 | Oct , 2016
The Living
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2009
Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodomor, and one Welshman's attempts to tell the world what was happening.Man with a Movie Camera
IMDB 7.8 | May , 1929
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.Amelia
IMDB 5.7 | Oct , 2009
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.Bonhoeffer: Holy Traitor
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2025
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, spy, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential.Chariots of Fire
IMDB 6.8 | May , 1981
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.