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Hitler: A Career
“A career unparalleled in history”
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.
Directed by Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer
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Status
Released
Released
July 8, 1977
Runtime
2h 30m
Language
German
Top 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)
Rudolf Hess
Self (archive footage)
Reinhard Heydrich
Self (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage)
Alfred Jodl
Self (archive footage)
Wilhelm Keitel
Self (archive footage)
