Movie: From Caligari to Hitler

Top 10 Billed Cast

Rüdiger Suchsland
Rüdiger Suchsland

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hans Henrik Wöhler
Hans Henrik Wöhler

Self - Narrator (voice)

Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff

Self - Filmmaker

Fatih Akin
Fatih Akin

Self - Filmmaker

Thomas Elsaesser
Thomas Elsaesser

Self - Film Historian

Eric D. Weitz
Eric D. Weitz

Self - Historian

Elisabeth Bronfen
Elisabeth Bronfen

Self - Cultural Critic

Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Friedrich Ebert
Friedrich Ebert

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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