A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of personality in propaganda to how said propaganda was associated with pre-Nazi German cultural, spiritual, and national heritage to the Holocaust and the ideology behind it, particularly from Himmler's point of view.
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Director, Writer

Harry Baer
Junger Ellerkamp

Heinz Schubert
Zirkusdirektor / Heinrich Himmler / Himmler-Puppenspieler / Adolf Hitler

Peter Kern
Mörder aus „M“ / Göring-Puppenspieler / Alter Ellerkamp / SS-Mann / Fremdenverkehrsdirektor

Hellmut Lange
Hitlers Kammerdiener / Goebbels-Puppenspieler / SS-Mann
Rainer von Artenfels
Jahrmarkt-Ausrufer / Hitler-Puppenspieler / Junger Goebbels / Schüler des Kosmologen / SS-Mann
Peter Moland
Astrologe / Speer-Puppenspieler / SS-Mann

Johannes Buzalski
Hitler als Anstreicher / Eva Braun-Puppenspieler / Mann der Gesellschaft 1923
Alfred Edel
Stimmen der Leute / Mann der Geschichte 1923

André Heller
Narrator / André Heller
Uprising65%
The Bunker63%
Judgment at Nuremberg80%
The Young Lions68%
Voyage of the Damned60%
Devotion70%
The Fall of the Roman Empire65%
The Scarlet and the Black70%
A Hidden Life71%
The Longest Day76%
Lion of the Desert73%
A Bridge Too Far72%
Cast a Giant Shadow63%
The Bridge on the River Kwai78%
Midway70%
So weit die Füße tragen71%
War Horse73%
Ben-Hur79%
Origin62%
Patton74%