{"id":35762,"date":"2015-05-28T10:13:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T08:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/looks.film\/from-caligari-to-hitler\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:39:37","slug":"from-caligari-to-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looks.film\/en\/from-caligari-to-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"From Caligari to Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax=&#8221;content-moving-fade&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;29431&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590672857380{background-position: center;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;36076&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;right&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590672816744{padding-top: 35px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590672852115{padding-left: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #00263e;\"><span class=\"label-inline dtable--label\">2014 | Documentary Feature | 113&#8242;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00263e;\"><span class=\"dtable--txt\"><span class=\"sep-item\"> |<span class=\"imdbRatingPlugin\" data-user=\"ur1705756\" data-title=\"tt3908344\" data-style=\"p4\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3908344\/?ref_=plg_rt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/G\/01\/imdb\/plugins\/rating\/images\/imdb_31x14.png\" alt=\" Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen (2014) on IMDb\" \/> <\/a><\/span><script>(function(d,s,id){var js,stags=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id)){return;}js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"https:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/G\/01\/imdb\/plugins\/rating\/js\/rating.js\";stags.parentNode.insertBefore(js,stags);})(document,\"script\",\"imdb-rating-api\");<\/script>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>From Caligari to Hitler<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;10px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1592218285207{margin-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590672920250{padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]The Weimar Republic, from 1918 to 1933, was the freest state on German soil; a wild era characterized by political disruption, economic crisis and cultural brilliance. It was also the most important period of German cinema, even to the present day. The aesthetic foundations were laid for the \u201cseventh art\u201d; Weimar\u2019s directors like Murnau, Lang, Lubitsch, Pabst, Sternberg and Ruttmann are still legendary today, and its stars are unforgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Cinema concentrated many tendencies of the period after the First World War: a latent fear of destruction in German society as it danced on a volcano, between hedonist lust and inevitable crisis \u2013 an explosive mixture. Siegfried Kracauer described this epoch in Von Caligari zu Hitler, the best-known of German film books to date. It tells of world war trauma, the fear of crisis, and the longings for a leader in German film \u2013 in other words: the way in which film presaged the era of totalitarianism and anticipated its events.<\/p>\n<p>What does cinema know that we don\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p>Suchsland\u2019s film investigates this question, tracing the diversity and riches of this film epoch. He shows that Weimar cinema was far more than Expressionism. It reflected the new possibilities, the sense of departure in a young republic.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590672881775{padding-right: 70px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Press<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/film\/festivals\/venice-film-review-from-caligari-to-hitler-german-cinema-in-the-age-of-the-masses-1201297252\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><em>\u201c<u>Exceptionally beautiful restored film clips \u2026<\/u>\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0 Variety<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Distribution<\/strong><br \/>\nBettina Offermann | <u><\/u><a href=\"mailto:distribution@looks.film\"><u>distribution@looks.film<\/u><\/a><br \/>\nWIDE HOUSE | <u>www.widehous<\/u><u>e.org<\/u>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Executive Producer<\/strong><br \/>\nGunnar Dedio<\/p>\n<p><strong>A co-production by<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"dtable--txt\">ZDF\/Arte, Murnau-Stiftung, Transit Film<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author &amp; Director<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"dtable--txt\">R\u00fcdiger Suchsland<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nCreative Producer<\/strong><br \/>\nMartina Haubrich<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"dtable--txt\">BKM, DFFF, Filmf\u00f6rderung Hessen<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,165,196,192],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From Caligari to Hitler - LOOKSfilm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Weimar Republic was the most important period of German cinema. 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