20 Mar 2021
Rushing or Dragging
In a recreation of Damien Chazelle's Academy Award winning film, Whiplash, a calculating drum teacher pushes his determined student to the limits. With one catch. He's a puppet.
Hitler: A Film from Germany
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.
Top Billed Cast
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
Martin Sperr Himmlers Masseur
Peter Lühr Wissenschaftler / Kosmologe
Amelie Syberberg Das kleine Mädchen
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