Swastika

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Audience Member Ages 17 and older!!!!!!!!!!!! The greatest 01 hour: and 53 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the most haunting fascinating and mesmeric films or pieces I have seen on this subject matter. Some incredible footage that I've not seen elsewhere and rarer still much footage that's often always been silent but here you see the home movies for instance at the berghof with the sound to match which is just fascinating and I've not seen this used in any other film or documentary. It does well in its intent and helps to show how the German people really would have seen the times and regime around them while still showing the flip side of this aswell. Would highly recomend and wish there was more of this footage and film available. Just learned that the home movie footage was expertly dubbed using deaf people to lip read what was being said. But still greatly changes and brings to life the footage in question. Also some great extras including fascinating clips of Albert spear being interviewed in the 70s I think. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Alternately fascinating and horrifying. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Weird experimental documentary attempts to depict the rise and fall of the National Socialist regime without using a single frame of shock footage; clips from various German television programs and home videos (shot with two-strip color film!) paint a mundane portrait of the Third Reich before the tides of war swept everything away. While it's not engaging at all, "Swastika" presents plenty of rare glimpses into daily life in a nation that could have flourished into a prosperous Socialist regime were it not for the Napoleonic aspirations of its charismatic Fuehrer. A devastating series of smash cuts bring us from the aftermath of the Hindenberg disaster, to the militarization of the Western Front, to the devastated ruin of Berlin in summer of 1945. Phillipe Mora's essay might be sorely lacking in insight, as far as its oft-covered subject is concerned, but the intriguing editing choices make this worth seeing as a cinematic curio. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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