Hitler: A Film from Germany

Hitler A Film from Germany German Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland , called Our Hitler in the US, is a 1977 FrancoBritishGerman experimental film directed by HansJrgen Syberberg, produced by Bernd Eichinger, and coproduced by the BBC. It starred Heinz Schubert, who played both Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. Along with Syberbergs characteristic and unusual motifs and style, the film is also notable for its 442minute running time.

One particular plot device, especially for mocking postwar fascination and cliches about Hitler and Nazism, is endless recitals from the nonfictitious autobiographies of people in direct contact with Hitler on his lifestyle, such as by Hitlers personal valet Heinz Linge played by Hellmut Lange and his adjutant Otto Gnsche played by Peter Kern, talking to the camera as if the spectator would be a young person who intends to learn about Hitler, while these seemingly endless passages end with original radio broadcasts on German war casualties and lost battles. This plot device thus mocks both Hitlers affiliation with his own personality and his increasingly delusional state that made him more and more unable to accurately lead a war the longer it lasted, as well as it mocks postwar German fascination with every little detail about historical Nazism and its personage, indicating that this postwar fascination might be nothing but subconscious admiration that will once more lead Germany to repeat the same downfall as apparent in the radio broadcasts.Himmlers personality is sometimes explored in a similar way by reciting the memories of such people as Himmlers personal astrologist played by Peter Moland, or his masseur Felix Kersten played by Martin Sperr, though not as extensively as in Hitlers case and not ending in such dramatic radio broadcasts. ........

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