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  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland suggests that the Third Reich was essentially an immersive movie starring the German nation, produced and directed by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Hitler’s Hollywood collages key films from the more than 1000 features the Nazis produced from 1933-1945: musicals, melodramas, romances, costume dramas, wa...

Directed By: Rüdiger Suchsland

Written By: Rüdiger Suchsland

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m

Hitler's Hollywood

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland suggests that the Third Reich was essentially an immersive movie starring the German nation, produced and directed by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Hitler’s Hollywood collages key films from the more than 1000 features the Nazis produced from 1933-1945: musicals, melodramas, romances, costume dramas, wa...

Directed By: Rüdiger Suchsland

Written By: Rüdiger Suchsland

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Mixed
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90
May 9, 2018
A fascinating film that is as thorough as it is idiosyncratic.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
88
Apr 11, 2018
One can’t watch this film and not think of events in the world today. How did the German nation get so caught up in the Nazi mythology that it plunged willingly toward its own destruction? Obviously being seduced away from a clear comprehension of reality into self-regarding mass fantasy was a big part of it.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 29, 2018
Drily narrated by Udo Kier, Hitler’s Hollywood is not a film about the rise of Nazism, nor even a linear history of the era’s cinema. Rather, it seeks to capture its spirit, interrogate its aesthetics and finally, to try to understand the insidious power of its propaganda.
By Christopher Machell FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 12, 2018
Providing important historical and sociological context, Hitler's Hollywood emerges as a compelling cinematic essay that should be essential viewing for cinephiles and history buffs alike.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 10, 2018
Rüdiger Suchsland’s film is a master class in the relationship between image production and ideology writ large.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 11, 2018
The most charged implication of Hitler’s Hollywood is that artistry enabled the Third Reich.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
42
Apr 11, 2018
While intermittently fascinating in its attention to detail and its provocative thesis, Suchsland’s verbose essay film never successfully surpasses the realm of mere academic curiosity.
By Tony Hinds FULL REVIEW

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Production Company LOOKSfilm, ZDF/Arte, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation
Release Date Apr 11, 2018
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Was weiß das kino, was wir nicht Wissen? [DVD: German to English translation: What does the cinema know that we don't know?]
Website http://www.farbfilm-verleih.de/filme/hitlers-hollywood/
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Awards

Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 4 Nominations
FEST International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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