Hitler, Ein Film aus Deutschland

Alternative title

Hitler - A Film from Germany

Synopsis

Feature film in four parts. The life of Hitler conveyed as ‘part theatre, part vaudeville, part magic lantern show...several Hitlers in succession, are interwoven through stylised tableaux, back projected stills, radio speeches, diary entries and performers playing Himmler, Goering, Goebbels etc.' Lanier (op cit) records two significant Shakespeare references - Hitler appears as Hamlet holding up a skull and he later paraphrases Shylock’s line ‘Hath not a Jew eyes ... do I not bleed?'.

Language

German (Standard)

Country

Germany

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

1978

Duration

442 mins

Availability

Out of distribution (4/2007).

Credits

Director

Hans Jürgen Syberberg

Producer

Bernd Eichinger

Cinematographer

Dietrich Lohmann

Screenplay

Hans Jürgen Syberberg

Production Design

Hans Gailling

Costume

Barbara Gaiiling; Brigitte Kuhlenthal

Cast

Rainer von Artenfels

Adolf Hitler (Hamlet)

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Hamlet; Merchant of Venice, The

Keywords

Hitler, Adolf; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

For sale on DVD (NTSC) from Facets.
The complete film may also be watched as a webcast http://www.syberberg.de/Syberberg2/Hitler_full_eng_QT2.html (accessed 4/2007).

History

In Edinburgh Festival (46th) 1992. 335-minute version shown on BBC2 in successive weeks between 4//8/1979 - 25/8/979. Off-air recordings of these transmissions may be viewed at the BFI National Archive.

Reviews

Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 355, entry 1493).

Literature/Film Quarterly. vol. 10. no. 4 (1 October 1987). p. 206-218. [Interview with director].

Production Company

Name

TMS Film

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

Web

http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/searching-access-collections/research-viewing-services External site opens in new window

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7436 0165

Address

21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN

Name

Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF

Email

schurig@deutsches-filminstitut.de

Web

http://www.deutsches-filminstitut.de External site opens in new window

Phone

0611 97 000 10

Fax

0611 97 000 15

Address

Filmarchiv
Kreuzberger Ring 56
65205 Wiesbaden
Germany

Distributor (Sale)

Name

Facets Multi-media Inc.

Email

sales@facets.org

Web

http://www.facetsdvd.com/ External site opens in new window

Phone

+1 773 281 9045

Fax

+1 773 929 5437

Address

1517 West Fullerton Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
60614
USA

Notes

A pioneering US distributor of over 65,000 international, animated, independent, art, classic, documentary, silent, and experimental films on DVD, some of them exclusive to the Facets label.