Hitler's Hollywood(2017)
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)
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Self - Narrator (voice)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Various Roles (archive footage)
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