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Hitler
Richard Basehart stars as one of the most influential and one of the most reviled men in history in this probing psychological study of a man who nearly gained dominance over the entire western world--at the cost of millions of lives--Hitler.
Release : | 1962 |
Rating : | 5.7 |
Studio : | Three Crown Productions Inc., |
Crew : | Art Direction, Set Decoration, |
Cast : | Richard Basehart Maria Emo Cordula Trantow Martin Kosleck Berry Kroeger |
Genre : | History War |
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You won't be disappointed!
Beautiful, moving film.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.
Stuart Heisler directs this seldom seen film about the private life of Adolf Hitler. Hoping to find an explanation of the madman's methodical rise to power and demise of his domination of his war torn country ...look somewhere else. The evil dictator is shown struggling with his love life and reluctance to cooperate with his doctor(John Wengraf), who was trying to treat the leader with his impotency and Oedipal complex. Maria Emo plays Eva Braun; Heinrich Himmler is portrayed by Rick Traeger and Martin Kosleck plays Joseph Goebbels. The megalomaniac Hiter doesn't seem to see how his paranoia affects his decision making. Archival footage is employed to glue the movie's progression. Other cast members: Celia Lovsky, Narda Onyx, Gregory Gaye, John Mitchum, Carl Esmond and Sirry Steffen. This film is also known as Women of Nazi Germany. Those that harbor curiosity of Hitler should be pleased.
Technically atrocious and hysterically inaccurate in almost all ways. Events maddeningly out of order... characters come and go almost randomly. Not a single character plays out realistically... from Basehart's histrionics to the actress who plays Eva Braun with strange stoicism which was not her primary characteristic. Even Martin Kosleck -- an otherwise talented actor -- plays Goebbles strangely and with an odd sense of sympathy, which was assuredly not a trait he had. It's not as if we don't know what occurred, but apparently the writer didn't have a clue.Inexcusable garbage, created by a hack director and the remnants of Monogram Studios in the guise of Allied Artists, though released through Warner Bros.
The most terrible dictator of the 20th century is portrayed convincingly by the star Richard Basehart. The ruthless hate and mania of Hitler knew no bounds and this film portrays Hitler unsympathetically at different stages of his ascent to power in Germany. There is a perverse fascination to see Basehart's Hitler suffer in his personal life.Though the characters portrayed were real, this is a drama and not a documentary. If you're looking for a comprehensive study of Hitler's life, many books at the library are available. Watch this film for a straightforward look at Hitler's psychotic character as it may have manifested itself to those closest to him.This movie offers an "inside view" of Hitler's relationships with the women closest to him, Geli Raubal and Eva Braun. We also see the possibility that a pivotal and controversial event in the Nazi's rise to power--the burning of the Reichstag--was in all probability an arson committed by the Nazis themselves.The martial soundtrack by Hans J. Salter is an added bonus.
Richard Basehart is OK as Hitler, even if a bit over the top. The rest of the cast is horrible, frankly. The film is an attempt to render Hitler from a psychological perspective, but the insights it offers are cartoonish oversimplifications at best, and can't make up its mind what Hitler's "problem" was. At one point it is implied he was impotent, at another point it is suggested he was homosexual. And always the business about his mother. The film offers more speculation than fact. The time frame of the film is a bit skewed too. Nothing of Hitler's youth is presented for a supposed psychological study. The year 1934 takes up nearly half the film; World War II gets at most ten minutes start to finish. In the end you have no more understanding of Hitler's personality, or his appeal to Germans, than you did at the outset. Which marks the film as a failure.