Hitler: The Rise of Evil
| Hitler: The Rise of Evil | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Written by |
John Pielmeier G. Ross Parker |
| Directed by | Christian Duguay |
| Starring |
Robert Carlyle Peter O'Toole Peter Stormare Thomas Sangster Liev Schreiber |
| Theme music composer | Normand Corbeil |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | John Ryan Ed Gernon Peter Sussman |
| Editor(s) | Sylvain Lebel james R. Myers Henk Van Eeghen |
| Running time | 179 min. |
| Distributor | Alliance Atlantis |
| Release | |
| Original release |
|
Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a Canadian TV miniseries in two parts, directed by Christian Duguay and produced by Alliance Atlantis. It explores Adolf Hitler's rise and his early consolidation of power during the years after the First World War and focuses on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted state of German society following the war made that ascent possible. The film also focuses on Ernst Hanfstaengl's influence on Hitler's rise to power. The miniseries, which premiered simultaneously in May 2003 on CBC in Canada and CBS in the United States, received two Emmy awards, for Art Direction and Sound Editing, while O'Toole was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
The film's subplot follows the struggles of Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist who opposes the rising Nazi Party. He is portrayed as to fulfill the essence of the quotation disputably attributed toEdmund Burke, which is displayed at the beginning and at the end of the film:
The opening of the film features a montage of Adolf Hitler's life during the years 1899-1914, when he left Austria for Munich. His participation in the First World War on the German side is then shown in a series of episodes which includes his promotion to the rank of corporal, his winning of the Iron Cross for bravery, and his blinding during a gas attack.
Hitler returns to a revolutionary Munich in 1919 and, still employed by the army, is assigned to report on the newly formed political parties in the city. After attending a meeting of the German Workers' Party, he is recruited by the party’s leader, Anton Drexler, to organise its propaganda activities and give increasingly popular speeches that harp on the themes that Germany has been betrayed by the leaders who surrendered in the last war, and that Communists and Jews are sapping the German spirit from within. After meeting the wealthy art publisher Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler is encouraged to refine his image and create a symbol for the party - which he does by adopting the Swastika. Hanfstaengl also puts Hitler in contact with the city’s elite, including the war hero Hermann Göring, and the militant Ernst Röhm, eventual organiser of the paramilitary SA. In 1921, Hitler forces Drexler to resign and takes over as leader of the renamed National Socialist Party.
...
Wikipedia