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THE HITLER CHRONICLES - BLUEPRINT FOR DICTATORS

By Hermann PÖLKING-EIKEN

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Historical - Completed 2018

As never seen before, and more topical today than any other Hitler biography, the Chronicles depict everyday European life between 1889 and 1945 in impressive images, many of them in color.

Festivals
& Awards

Dok.fest München 2017
AGAINST GRAVITY 2018
Millennium Docs 2018
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021
Doc Market
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    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Historical, Documentary
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 50 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hermann PÖLKING-EIKEN
    • Producer(s)
    • Thorsten POLLFUSS (Epoche Media Production)
    • Synopsis
    • Swaying a politics fatigue with media savvy populist theses, post-factual arguments and mere lies, with emotional appeals ridiculing democratic processes and defaming opponents is not new. Seeing signs repeat themselves is a disturbing, inspiring experience with a clear political statement against abuse and apathy.

      The film roots Hitler's life story in a fifty-year period that is also examined in parallel and provides the basis for understanding the person – if this is at all possible. The film relates the life of Adolf Hitler as it interacts with and responds to Austrian and German society as well as the national and international political trends and events during the first half of the 20th century.

      This film carefully gathers visual materials starting from 1889 and tells for the first time ever the whole story, in true images, from cradle to grave. It makes no attempt at a speculative psychological interpretation of Adolf Hitler's actions, rise to power and criminal acts based on his personal background and the social circumstances. The makers instead see the "Führer" as a welcome and willingly accepted ‘projection’ of a large part of the German nationalist circles. In these traditionally authoritarian and ultimately ‘apolitical’ sections of society, Hitler's actions and those of his followers express and highlight a latent chauvinistic consciousness, which ultimately led to the catastrophe of World War II and the holocaust. The writer and producer therefore consider it possible to avoid giving the viewer answers, to confront contradictory statements of contemporaries with others, including Hitler's, and to limit the commentary to the hard and established facts.

      The Chronicles are produced in HD quality and with no flashbacks, very little narration, and no editing within archival footage. Many of the historic film sources have been scanned again in HD and are restored where possible. The result is a new, modern visual aesthetic. The mostly silent original sources are dubbed as faithfully as possible, giving a historically appropriate atmosphere to achieve a contemporary form of representation also on the soundtrack.
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