Hitler: A Film From Germany

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Audience Member Ever try tuning in a far away A.M. station? From another country perhaps, or even in your own language? Well, that just about sums up what seeing this movie is like. Part lecture (especially the last quarter), part play, part performance art, part Howdy Doody, this film rises to your conscious level of thinking at times, only to slip away in the wash of images, radio transcriptions and "creative" presentation (i.e. - acting). Challenging on all levels at all times, the viewer cannot help but feel lost some times and playing catch-up at all times. Good film to see when stranded at home, on the couch, with a fever of one-hundred and three. The fever would definitely be a plus. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Essentially a 450-minute performance art style work that attempts to find Hitler's place in the universe. How he relates to German culture, world history, film, German identity... even astrology. It's a massively ambitious project, one that requires stamina not only to endure the length, but also the depth. Most of the film plays out as a series of monologues against a backdrop of projected historical footage or still images. Sometimes it's very mundane, sometimes it's highly philosophical or abstract. In one 40-minute sequence, we hear from Hitler's valet about his dressing habits and morning routine. This was actually a pretty interesting bit of reportage to me. In another 40-minute sequence, a man at a desk reads from prepared text about... hell, I don't even know. It was a lot of rambling. This is my problem with the film. The more "arty" and presumably meaningful it got, the more I tuned out. I was interested in the details, but not Syberberg's ideas about the big picture. It felt like a messy, confused jumble of things... not hastily written, but perhaps not that well planned, either. I feel some guilt about being bored by it, as if I simply wasn't smart enough or educated enough to appreciate it. Maybe that's true. I was intrigued by some of it, but I think I would have absorbed it more as a series of short films rather than a huge epic. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie show how people died in the pass Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Absolutely outstanding. Reminiscent of a time when cinema was actually an art form - remember that? The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that it's about 7 hours long, but by God if you can last that long it's worth it. Scenes with Hitler's valet and Himmler's astrologist were particularly captivating, if you ask me. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member An absorbing cocoon. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member A film that did not simply say Hitler was evil is certainly interesting to watch. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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