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
- 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.
- 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.
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Hitler, Ein Film aus Deutschland". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68058 (Accessed 12 Nov 2024)