Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into power. (Followed by Hitler's Hollywood, 2017.)
Rüdiger Suchsland
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Hans Henrik Wöhler
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Volker Schlöndorff
as Self - Filmmaker
Fatih Akin
as Self - Filmmaker
Thomas Elsaesser
as Self - Film Historian
Eric D. Weitz
as Self - Historian
Elisabeth Bronfen
as Self - Cultural Critic
Fritz Lang
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Ernst Lubitsch
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Friedrich Ebert
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
