A television adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger "The Oppermann House" (Die Geschwister), co-production of the BBC and ZDF (German 2nd TV channel). The story of the Oppermanns, a Jewish-German family, owners of a big department store in Berlin of the early 30s.
Documentary film that deals with Herman Goring (1893-1946) one of the heads of the Nazi regime, Reichsmarshal and commander of Hitler's air force. The film surveys his activity in the party and the Nazi leadership, his service as a pilot in the First World War, his various roles, his relations with Hitler, his family, his place in the annihilation of the Jews and others, his failure in the battle over Stalingrad, his arrest, being brought to justice at Nuremberg and his suicide.
Charlie Chaplin’s first “talkie”. A satiric attack on Hitler and Nazism, telling the story of an amnesiac Jewish barber (based on Chaplin’s “tramp”), who happens to resemble Hitler. Chaplin plays both the barber, and the role of “Adenoid Hynkel”, the tyrannical dictator of “Tomania”. The Jewish barber, who lost his memory while serving in the First World War, was subsequently hospitalized for twenty years. When he tries to return to his barbershop upon his release, he finds that it is inside the Jewish ghetto, controlled by SA thugs. Although The Great Dictator was made when the world did not yet know the whole...
A documentary. The Nazification of Germany from 1933 to 1945 told through a compilation of Nazi footage, newsreels, propaganda films and Eva Braun's home movies.This documentary shows also the private face of Hitler through Eva Braun's home movies, contrasted with newsreels from the Nazi era to present an extraordinary pictorial record of the regime.
Based on Arnold Zweig’s novel (1947), this DEFA drama set in 1934 and tells the story of Albert Teetjen’s, Hamburg butcher who accepts money from the Nazis to serve as a public executioner, and the moral denunciation of his community that drives him to financial ruin and suicide.
A feature film. It revolves around the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany after the murder of SA leader Ernst Röhm on the Night of the Long Knives.
Based on the 1979 play of the same name by Martin Sherman, who also wrote the screenplay