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HITLER'S HOLLYWOOD

By Rüdiger SUCHSLAND

CINÉMATHÈQUE SUISSE / SWISS FILM ARCHIVE - as DISTR Theatrical, SWITZERLAND

Art - Culture - Completed 2017

Hitler’s Hollywood tells the story of one of the most important and dramatic period in the German cinema history.
Once again, what does cinema know that we don't know?

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Documentary
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 105 mn
- Director(s)
- Rüdiger SUCHSLAND
- Producer(s)
- Martina HAUBRICH (LOOKS FILMPRODUKTIONEN GMBH)
- Synopsis
- The Third Reich cinema was a heavily censored industry and at the same time, longed to be a German dream factory. It produced, among others, the Nazi blockbuster "Münchhausen", at the request of Joseph Goebbels. It established its own celebrity star system and used the latest marketing tools.
  
  About 1000 feature films were produced in Germany between 1933 and 1945 and only a few were openly Nazi propaganda films and even fewer could be considered harmless entertainment.
  
  We look at these films and the people behind them. How stereotypes of the “enemy” and values of love and hate managed to be planted, into the viewers’ minds, through the screens.