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Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
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Original name: Hitler - Ein Film aus Deutschland
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK
Duration: 442 min.
Story:
Documentary film that examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich, incorporating puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. The director, who grew up under Nazi tyranny, ruminates on good and evil and the rest of humanity's complicity in the horrors of the holocaust.
Style:
political, surreal, art house, experimental, rough, thought provoking, clever, bleak, epic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, holocaust, dehumanization, existentialism, nazi occultism, anti semitism, megalomaniac, suspense, genocide, life is a bitch, society, ambition, rise and fall, idealism, social decay, downfall, against humanity, unfulfillment, end of the world, hitler, invasion, politics, doll, circus ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 30s, 40s
Place:
germany, europe, prussia, east germany, bavaria
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and thought provoking films with plots about world war two, society, life is a bitch, nazi, anti semitism, holocaust and against humanity mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Hitler: A Film from Germany: From a Far Country (1981), Conspiracy (2001), The Happiest Place on Earth (1999), Karl May (1974), The Last Sentence (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, UK, Poland
Duration: 140 min.
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The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later Nazi Germany attacks Poland and invades the country while Wojtila seeks refuge at the ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
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The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking ...
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
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The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
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filmmaking, world war two, satire, politics, anti semitism, showbiz, actor's life, wartime life, artists and showbiz, against humanity, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the ...
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surreal, avant garde
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writers, world war, symbolism, dictator, court, novelist, nazi, male protagonist, memory, past, breaking the fourth wall, journalist ...
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germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of ...
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serious, thought provoking, touching, realistic, uplifting ...
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20th century, 1940s, 1930s
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sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can ...
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Hannah Arendt is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min.
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A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Duration: 109 min.
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