Undergångens arkitektur (1989)

Director:

Peter Cohen

Writer:

Peter Cohen (writer)

Release Date:

13 October 1989 (Sweden)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Skönhetskult och barbari i Tredje Riket

Plot:

An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create...

Plot Keywords:

Jewish | Nazi | Degenerate Art | Reform | Invasion

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Rolf Arsenius	...	Narrator (original version) (voice)
Bruno Ganz	...	Narrator (German, subtitled English versions) (voice)
Sam Gray	...	Narrator (dubbed English version)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Martin Bormann	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dr. Karl Brandt	...	Himself (archive footage)
Arno Breker	...	Himself (archive footage)
Hermann Giesler	...	Himself (archive footage)
Josef Goebbels	...	Himself (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler	...	Himself (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage)
Wilhelm Keitel	...	Himself (archive footage)
Viktor Lutze	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jeanne Moreau	...	Narrator (French version) (voice)
Alfred Rosenberg	...	Himself (archive footage)
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt	...	Himself (archive footage)
Albert Speer	...	Himself (archive footage)
Josef Thorak	...	Himself (archive footage)
P.L. Troost	...	Himself (archive footage)

Directed by
Peter Cohen

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Peter Cohen		writer

Produced by
Peter Cohen	....	producer

Original Music by
Sven Ahlin
Peter Cohen

Non-Original Music by
Richard Wagner		(from opera "Rienzi")

Cinematography by
Mikael Cohen
Gerhard Fromm
Peter Östlund

Sound Department
Klas Dykhoff	....	sound editor
Kjell Westman	....	dubbing mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Börje Sundberg	....	gaffer

Editorial Department
Karin Giernoth	....	negative cutter

Other crew
Stig Jonassen	....	fact checking

Thanks
Göran Bengtson	....	thanks
Marcel Cravenne	....	thanks (as Marcel Cohen)
Boguslaw Drewniak	....	thanks
Marylou Gjernes	....	thanks
Kay Glans	....	thanks
Harald Herrmann	....	thanks
Ernst Klee	....	thanks
Gerhard Koch	....	thanks
Bo Kuritzen	....	thanks
Lars-Olof Larsson	....	thanks
Lars Lundström	....	thanks
Mikael Rosengren	....	thanks
Werner Schwanitz	....	thanks
Hans Jurgen Singer	....	thanks
Claes Söderqvist	....	thanks
Rita Stetter	....	thanks
Peter Vierek	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Poj Filmproduktion AB
• SVT Drama
• Sandrews
• Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI)

Distributors

• Cult Filmes (Brazil) (VHS)
• First Run Features (1991) (USA) (subtitled)
• Sandrew

Also Known As:

The Architecture of Doom

Runtime:

119 min

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:M | Sweden:11

Company:

Poj Filmproduktion AB

Trivia:

While researching this film in Germany, 'Cohen, Peter' stumbled upon an obscure industrial documentary about various methods of vermin control for factory use. This short, entitled "Kleinkrieg" (or "Little War"), proved invaluable as it was the first to advocate the use of Zyklon-B as an effective means of mass extermination.

Movie Connections:

Features Der ewige Jude (1940)

Very deep, fairly narrow, extremely good.

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.