written and directed by
Hans Jurgen Syberberg

One of Europe's boldest and most controversial film and theatre directors, Syberberg
 has devoted much of his career to exploring the roots of his native Germany's tragic
 destiny in the 20th century.  His earlier films, Ludwig, Requiem for a Virgin King,
 and Karl May, developed the form of "montrous monologue", which culminated
 in a unique co-production by Europe's three leading broadcasters in 1977.

Syberberg believes Hitler is the subject of our century, and one that needs to be explored at
many levels, so that we can discover "the little bit of Hitler in all of us".  Here we meet Hitler
 in many guises:  as a ventriloquist dummy, Mr Punch (with Eva Braun as Judy), Napoleon,
 Chaplin's "Great Dictator", in a film which tries to combine the epic theatre of Brecht with
 the musical aesthetic of Wagner, and is also a film about the power of cinema itself.

The film is in four parts, and comes on two DVD discs:

1.  THE GRAIL
2.  A GERMAN DREAM
3.  THE END OF A WINTER'S TALE
4.  WE, THE CHILDREN OF HELL

"The most spectacularly original contribution to Hitler studies which the cinema has given us."
 Nigel Andrews, "Financial Times"

"A historic film document... one man's argumentative, passionate, and pessimistic analysis of
European culture in the twentieth century, and of the devil in all of us that we conveniently call Hitler."
 Derek Malcolm, "The Guardian"

Transferred from a rare and out-of-print European boxed set.
Excellent picture /sound quality!

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