From Caligari to Hitler (Kino Lorber, DVD)
DVD Street Date: January 9, 2018
DVD SRP: $29.95
Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
Starring: Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Fritz Lang
Documentary / 118 min / NR / B&W and Color
Synopsis: In the relevatory documentary From Caligari to Hitler filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland explores the connections between the expressionist silent cinema of Germany and the subsequent rise of Nazism. The film illustrates Siegfried Kracauer’s 1947 thesis that Nazism is anticipated in many themes found throughout Weimar cinema of the 1920s, while situating Kracauer in the philosophy and histories of the time. Looking at landmark films like Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler, Metropolis, The Golem, and many others, Suchsland brilliantly tracks the concept of the charmismatic villain bewitching the people.
