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  • From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014)
  • 119 min | Documentary, Biography, History
From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014)
119 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its 'collective spirit' in cinema. The purpose of film as a cultural tool is examined. Based on celebrated sociologist Siegfried Kracauer's seminal book 'From Caligari to Hitler' (1947).
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May 28, 2015 (Germany)

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85 cast members
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Rüdiger Suchsland
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Hans Henrik Wöhler
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Fritz Lang
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Alfred Abel
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Gertrud Arnold
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Elisabeth Bergner
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Brigitte Borchert
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Bertolt Brecht
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Louise Brooks
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Lil Dagover
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Lya De Putti
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Carl de Vogt
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Marlene Dietrich
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Christl Ehlers
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Lotte Eisner
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Friedrich Feher
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Rudolf Forster
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Willy Fritsch
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Gustav Fröhlich
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Henrik Galeen
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Greta Garbo
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Otto Gebühr
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Heinrich George
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Friedrich Gnaß
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Gustaf Gründgens
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Marie Harder
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Lilian Harvey
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Brigitte Helm
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Adolf Hitler
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Werner Hochbaum
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Friedrich Hollaender
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Camilla Horn
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Emil Jannings
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Oskar Karlweis
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge
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Siegfried Kracauer
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Werner Krauss
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Gerhard Lamprecht
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Ruth Landshoff
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Francis Lederer
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Lotte Lenya
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Theodor Loos
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Peter Lorre
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Ernst Lubitsch
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Karl Heinz Martin
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Erna Morena
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F.W. Murnau
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Pola Negri
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Asta Nielsen
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Manfred Noa
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Ressel Orla
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Richard Oswald
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst
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Erich Pommer
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Henny Porten
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Hanna Ralph
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Fritz Rasp
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Walther Rathenau
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Robert Reinert
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Paul Richter
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Leni Riefenstahl
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Walter Ruttmann
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Heinz Rühmann
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Joseph Schildkraut
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Max Schreck
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Greta Schröder
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Margarete Schön
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Eugen Schüfftan
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Reinhold Schünzel
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Robert Siodmak
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Luis Trenker
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Edgar G. Ulmer
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Conrad Veidt
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Josef von Sternberg
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Kurt Weill
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Otto Wernicke
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Robert Wiene
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Billy Wilder
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