FORBIDDEN FILMS

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• Release Year: 2014
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: 1,200 feature films were made in Germany’s Third Reich. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. Nearly seventy years after the end of the Nazi regime, more than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix Moeller (Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss) interviews German film historians, archivists and filmgoers in an investigation of the power, and potential danger, of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Utilizing clips from the films and recorded discussions from public screenings (permitted in Germany in educational contexts) in Munich, Berlin, Paris and Jerusalem, Moeller shows how contentious these 70-year-old films remain, and how propaganda can retain its punch when presented to audiences susceptible to manipulation.
• Cast: Hans Albers, Götz Aly, Elise Aulinger, Berta Drews, Stefan Drössler, Walter Franck, Jörg Friess, Heinrich George, Paul Hartmann, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Adolf Hitler, Emil Jannings, Jörg Jannings, Karl John, Heinz Klingenberg, Egbert Koppe, Zarah Leander, Johanna Liebeneiner, Sylvie Lindeperg, Wladimir Majer, Ferdinand Marian, Jürgen Ohlsen, Oskar Roehler, Rainer Rother, Frank Röth, Sonja M. Schulz, Viktor Staal, Hans Stiebner, Ernst Szebedits, Kristina Söderbaum, Margarethe von Trotta, Christiane Von Wahlert, Rolf Wenkhaus, Otto Wernicke, Paula Wessely, Mathias Wieman, Moshe Zimmermann, Felix Moeller
• Director: Felix Moeller
• Runtime: 1:34
• Company: Blueprint Pictures, Kino Lorber Incorporated, Zeitgeist Films
• Media Format: Movie