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About four hours into its nearly eight- hour running time (4. Hans- Jurgen Syberberg's Our.
Hitler: A Film from Germany (1. It comes, after hours of gassy cosmic. Hitler's valet and. Krause. The former sailor was assigned to attend to Hitler's clothes, see that Der Fuhrer's. So we get the devil in the details of Hitler's routines, which not surprisingly. Syberberg is after here.
We're told that Hitler could be surprisingly oblivious to clothes, and that the man who killed millions. If no man is a hero to his valet, Hitler was. Christmas tree. Left to himself, he'd revert to looking baggier and more rumpled than you'd expect from. Third Reich, otherwise a genius at marketing himself. Hitler sensed what a. WW I Germany wanted and served it up on a massive scale, with an unerring instinct for.
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Movies.com > Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland synopsis and cast. Share. he explores the factors in the German psyche which sought for and then deified a man like. Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland. Rated: Runtime: 7 hr. 30 min. he explores the factors in the German psyche which sought for and then deified a man like Hitler. Hitler, ein film aus Deutschland. [Hans Jürgen Syberberg; Harry Baer; André Heller; Heinz Schubert; Peter Kern;. Our Hitler, a film from Germany: Responsibility.
Although taking great pains to link himself to mytho- heroic antecedents, he was shrewd enough. Hitler was a great devotee. Social evenings at the.
Reichschancellory, we re told, ended with movie showings in Hitler's private screening room. Among his. favorites: Broadway Melody, Disney animations, Die Nibelungen of Fritz Lang, who had the. Germany.)This is not the History Channel Hitler. Our Hitler isn't a documentary in the usual sense. It's a. large- spanned meditation on Hitler, where he came from, culturally speaking, what he tapped into, and. Europe and the rest of the world. It's no coincidence that Syberberg had already filmed.
King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Karl May, king of German pulp fiction, and Winifred Wagner. Bayreuth and was Hitler's friend. At times, the film seems an. Ludwig's extravagant castles.
Wagner's Ring Cycle. Utilizing Brechtian distancing to the max, Syberberg fills a huge stage with vivid tableaux and resonant. Syberberg's daughter, Amelie). Most notable of all is an almost life- sized puppet of Hitler as a. Syberberg, addressing the. Hitler's so- called legacy. All including a huge screen on which archival footgae is projected upstage.
There are lots of shadows, lots of mist. Much is seen through. Germany. The Hitler puppet bristles with something like malignant life. But while there can be no question that.
Our Hitler contextualizes Hitler with a breadth (if not quite depth) no other film has, Syberberg does. It's at times fascinating, at times exasperatingly self- indulgent. Syberberg's words. Hitler, Goebbels, and the like.
Why, you ask yourself, does Hitler's method of address to a populace we are told adored him, involve so. Lots of Wagner on the soundtrack, too, of course, to go with the crazed rant. Lots of. death in both. One vivid stage picture involves an actor dressed as Hitler in a toga, rising up from.
Wagner's grave. The "Our" in the title, by the way, isn't Syberberg's. It was affixed by Francis Ford Coppola, who. U. S. The "Our" also presents something. Syberberg goes to great pains to point out. Hitler is a particularly Germanic product German romanticism gone psychotic.
Not that he fails to. Hitler's model for genocide could have been the American extermination of what he calls Red. Indians, or that subsequent models were developed by Stalin's Soviet imperialism and other monstrous. As Syberberg tells the unseeing Hitler puppet: "You've.
And, he adds, the malignancy is far from extinct. In making you shudder at the industrial scale of Hitler's hate- fueled killing and lunatic ravings, the. Hitler's perversion of language, the barbaric actions to which he affixed.
Syberberg knows his Orwell. The more horrible Hitler's. It doesn't help that Syberberg has his own. Possibly he was doing an ironic riff on kitsch when he begins the film by telling us.
The mysterious path goes inward, into night" or ends it by calling what we have just seen "a projection. Although some of his pronouncements and connections are pretty.
One might almost say, with apologies to Cole Porter, down, down, down he goes, into the ground he goes. Or at least transfixed by. For more information about Our Hitler, visit Facets. Multimedia. To order Our Hitler, go to. TCM Shopping. by Jay Carr.