From Caligari to Hitler (2015)

Rüdiger Suchsland as Self - Narrator (voice) Age 58 · Berlin, Germany

Volker Schlöndorff as Self - Filmmaker Age 87 · Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-...

Fatih Akin as Self - Filmmaker Age 52 · Hamburg, Deutschland Fatih Akin (Turkish: Fatih Akın, born 25 August 1973) is a Turkish-German film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films have won numerous awards and accolades, including the Golden Bear at the...

Fritz Lang as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) Died 1976 · Vienna, Austria Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés fro...

Ernst Lubitsch as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) Died 1947 · Berlin, Germany Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant...

Joseph Goebbels as Self - Politician (archive footage) Died 1945 · Rheydt, Germany Paul Joseph Goebbels (German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s]; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist...