Hitler: A Career

1977·Movie·2h 30m

Documentary, History

7.4 / 10 (88 votes)

A career unparalleled in history

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.

Directed by: Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer
Original language: Deutsch
Released: 8 July 1977

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Cast

Gert Westphal
Narrator (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Ernest Bevin
Self (archive footage)
KB
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)
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Emperor Franz Josef
Self (archive footage)