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FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER: GERMAN CINEMA IN THE AGE OF THE MASSES
Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das Deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen
Synopsis
Using a montage of footage from the highest quality restorations, the film illustrates Siegfried Kracauer’s 1947 thesis that the rise of Nazism is anticipated in many themes found throughout Weimar cinema, while situating Kracauer in the philosophy and histories of the time.
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Synopsis
Using a montage of footage from the highest quality restorations, the film illustrates Siegfried Kracauer’s 1947 thesis that the rise of Nazism is anticipated in many themes found throughout Weimar cinema, while situating Kracauer in the philosophy and histories of the time.