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Mood:
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- Head of StateJournalismPoliticsRise and FallRise To the TopAnti SemitismGenocideWartime Life more...
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- HistoricalDocumentary
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- 1910s20s20th Century30s40sWorld War 2
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- EuropeGermany
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- Critically Acclaimed
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- Archive Footage
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- Biography
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- Partly B&W
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Das Goebbels-Experiment, 2005
German, English
Germany, UK
Profile of Das Goebbels-Experiment
The mood of Das Goebbels-Experiment is disturbing, thought provoking, and contemplative. The plot centers around anti semitism, genocide, and a head of state. It is a documentary and historical movie. Stylistically, Das Goebbels-Experiment archive footage. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Das Goebbels-Experiment is set in Germany. It happens in the 1910s, in the 1920s, and during World War 2. Visually, it is partly black and white. Das Goebbels-Experiment is drawn from a biography. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Das Goebbels-Experiment
An intimate look at the mind of the master propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who shaped German popular opinion throughout the Nazi rise to power and subsequent fall, THE GOEBBELS EXPERIMENT unfolds through diary excerpts spanning the years between 1924 until Goebbels's grisly death at the close of WWII. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, the text is accompanied by archival photographs and early films taken from the period, and includes many instances of Goebbels himself at the podium, such as his famous "Total War" speech. More interesting is the insight into the evolution and inner workings of Goebbels's character. He tells of his early illnesses, which left him paralyzed, and a youth that "held little joy." Diminutive, clubfooted, and deeply pessimistic, he describes his early literary pursuits, reading Mann and Dostoevski, and the unhappiness and loathing he experienced while working in a bank in Cologne. Searching for meaning in his life, he finds purpose in the Third Reich, and pledges utter devotion to Hitler. Later, this unqualified adoration is beset with paranoia and petty squabbles, and the inner sanctum of the Nazi party is shown from Goebbels's perspective to be a bickering clique of ladder climbers. Goebbels's personal life is equally fraught, as he remains painfully single until he enters his 30s, and then becomes an unqualified womanizer. The artistic and film criticism on offer in the diaries is illuminating, as Goebbels critiques Sergei Eisenstein for being "too propagandistic," and delivers a harshly misogynist view of Leni Riefenstahl. This remarkable view of one of the most notorious, cold-blooded figures to populate the 20th century sheds light of one of the darkest points in history itself.
Details
| Language: | German, English |
| Country: | Germany, UK |
| Release date: | 12 August 2005 |
| Runtime: | 108 min |
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