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Writer:
Joachim Fest (writer)
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Release Date:
8 July 1977 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Documentary more
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User Comments:
Thorough more (5 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Gert Westphal ... Narrator (voice: German version)
Stephen Murray ... Narrator (English version) (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Artur Axmann ... Himself (archive footage)
General Bergeret ... Himself (archive footage)
Ernest Bevin ... Himself (archive footage)
Dr. Karl Brandt ... Himself (archive footage)
Eva Braun ... Herself (archive footage)
Arno Breker ... Himself (archive footage)
Neville Chamberlain ... Himself (archive footage)

Charles Chaplin ... Himself (archive footage)
Winston Churchill ... Himself (archive footage)
Galeazzo Ciano ... Himself (archive footage)
Édouard Daladier ... Himself (archive footage)
Alfred Delp ... Himself (archive footage)
Sepp Dietrich ... Himself (archive footage)
Karl Dönitz ... Himself (archive footage)
Albert Einstein ... Himself (archive footage)
Emperor Franz Josef ... Himself (archive footage)
Roland Freisler ... Himself (archive footage)
Otto Gebühr ... Frederick the Great (archive footage)
Josef Goebbels ... Himself (archive footage)
Hermann Göring ... Himself (archive footage)
Lord Halifax ... Himself (archive footage)
Rudolf Hess ... Himself (archive footage)
Walter Hewel ... Himself (archive footage)
Reinhard Heydrich ... Himself (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler ... Himself (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler ... Himself (archive footage)
Heinrich Hoffmann ... Himself (archive footage)
Alfred Hugenberg ... Himself (archive footage)
Charles Huntziger ... Himself (archive footage)
Alfred Jodl ... Himself (archive footage)
Wilhelm Keitel ... Himself (archive footage)
King Victor Emmanuel III ... Himself (archive footage)
Fritz Kortner ... Himself (archive footage)
Admiral Le Luc ... Himself (archive footage)
Robert Ley ... Himself (archive footage)
Ernst Lubitsch ... Himself (archive footage)
Erich Ludendorff ... Himself (archive footage)
Viktor Lutze ... Himself (archive footage)
Thomas Mann ... Himself (archive footage)
Dr. Theodor Morell ... Himself (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini ... Himself (archive footage)
Léon Noël ... Himself (archive footage)
Friedrich Paulus ... Himself (archive footage)
Erich Raeder ... Himself (archive footage)
Max Reinhardt ... Himself (archive footage)
Ernst Röhm ... Himself (archive footage)
Erwin Rommel ... Himself (archive footage)
Ulrich Schwerin von Schwanenfeld ... Himself
Albert Speer ... Himself (archive footage)
Julius Streicher ... Himself (archive footage)
Gustav Stresemann ... Himself (archive footage)
Richard Tauber ... Himself (archive footage)
Ernst Thälmann ... Himself (archive footage)
Paul von Hindenburg ... Himself (archive footage)
Franz von Papen ... Himself (archive footage)
Joachim von Ribbentrop ... Himself (archive footage)
Adam von Trott zu Solz ... Himself (archive footage)
Erwin von Witzleben ... Himself (archive footage)
Harry Giese ... Narrator (voice) (uncredited) (archive sound)
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Directed by
Joachim Fest  (as Joachim C. Fest)
Christian Herrendoerfer 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Joachim Fest  writer (as Joachim C. Fest)

Produced by
Werner Rieb .... producer
 
Original Music by
Hans Posegga 
 
Cinematography by
Eva Braun (colour home movies)
 
Film Editing by
Karin Haban 
Elisabeth Imholte 
Fritz Schwaiger 
 
Sound Department
Willi Schwadorf .... sound
 
Special Effects by
Theo Nischwitz .... special effects
 
Music Department
Horst Wessel .... composer: song "Die Fahne hoch"
 
Other crew
Lutz Becker .... film researcher
Christian Herrendoerfer .... film researcher
Dieter Kautzner .... film researcher
Werner Rieb .... film researcher
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Hitler, a Career (USA)
Hitler: The Whole Story (USA)
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Runtime:
USA:150 min | Germany:155 min (DVD version)
Country:
West Germany
Language:
German
Color:
Black and White | Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:(Banned) (original rating) (1978) | Finland:K-16 (re-rating) (1978) | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | Germany:12 (video rating)
Company:
Interart more

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Thorough, 8 January 2009
8/10
Author: Grann-Bach (Grann-Bach@jubii.dk) from Denmark

We watched this in History class, to follow up on having read about both World Wars. This deals with Hitler and his rise to power, WWII and a lot of the situations surrounding them. It's got a lot of detail, and an utterly immense amount of footage from back then, almost exclusively in black and white. There may have been some stills, but I don't believe there are any talking heads, interviews, in this. The material and narration are all. The editing is magnificent, and the quality of picture and sound are impressive(keeping in mind that what we see is decades old, and that this was put together long before the digital age, computers and smooth PC- or Mac-based systems for post-production that anyone with the capital required can acquire, that we take for granted today). This is a well-produced documentary that doesn't attempt to judge or pass blame, it presents and analyzes, goes into the facts with a certain depth, yet it doesn't point fingers. I recommend this to anyone who is interested in knowing more info regarding the subject. 8/10

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