DVD Release: From Caligari to Hitler

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Laurence
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DVD Release Date: Jan. 9, 2016
Price: DVD $19.99
Studio: Kino Lorber

Taking its name from the landmark 1947 thesis by German film theorist Siegfried Kracauer, the 2014 documentary From Caligari to Hitler proposes that Nazism in Germany was anticipated in many themes found throughout Weimar cinema, which reflected the nation’s collective subconscious through the post-WWI 1920.

A scene from Robert Wiene’s 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Uses a montage of restored footage from such films as Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse -The Gambler, F.W. Murnau’s Metropolis, Paul Wegner’s The Golem, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and many others, Suschland tracks the concept of the charismatic villain bewitching the people and the fascination of everyday Germans with fascist power. Overall, the doc illustrates power of the narrative moving image—particularly silent cinema—in its earlier days, and how it could cast a spell on its audiences.

This German production is presented in German and English with optional subtitles.

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.