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 ArtenfelsAdolf 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.

How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "Hitler, Ein Film aus Deutschland". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68058 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)