Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 150 min
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- nazi
- world war ii
- biography
- republic of weimar
- historical figure
- archive footage
- media manipulation
- nazism
- 1920s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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)
- Directed
- Christian Herrendoerfer, Joachim Fest
- Written
- Joachim Fest
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 88 ratings
- Studio
- Interart, Werner Rieb Produktion, Cine-art Munich
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
