Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's dreamlike collage explores the roots and continued meaning of Germany's Nazi past. Against a backdrop of footage from the Third Reich, actors perform monologues in a dense, experimental brew that straddles the line between fiction and documentary. Though monumental in size--the film is divided into four parts and clocks in at seven hours--it is also profound in depth, rewarding anyone who enters its strange world with a powerful, haunting experience.
DVD Features:
Full Frame - 1.33
Subject
Adolf Hitler: Fascist German dictator
Review 1:
"Syberberg proposes Hitler as a diabolical culmination of German Romanticism....[O]ver its full length it becomes riveting and immersive..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.97 05/01/2008
Review 2:
"[A] mixed-mode, surrealistic tour de force, one whose theatricality is a satirical indictment of the Nazification of Germany."
Source: Film Comment
p.77 09/01/2007
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