Hitler: A Career
“A career unparalleled in history”
1977•14•2h 30m•7.4•Released
DocumentaryHistory
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
Director
Joachim Fest
Writer
Joachim Fest
Languages
German
Studio
Interart
Cast
Gert Westphal
Narrator (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Ernest Bevin
Self (archive footage)
Karl Brandt
Self (archive footage)
Eva Braun
Self (archive footage)
Neville Chamberlain
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
Édouard Daladier
Self (archive footage)
Karl Dönitz
Self (archive footage)
Albert Einstein
Self (archive footage)
Emperor Franz Josef
Self (archive footage)
Otto Gebühr
Frederick the Great (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
Interart
Company
Werner Rieb Produktion
Company
Cine-art Munich
Producer
Werner Rieb
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