Our Hitler: A Film From Germany
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Movie Reviews of Our Hitler: A Film From Germany
Movie Review: INCREDIBLE FILM OF STAGGERING ORIGINALITY
Summary: 5 Stars
This incredible film of staggering originality is as profound and visually imaginative as cinema can get. Not widely seen in this country, but perhaps even more meaningful today as we face ever new forms of an ancient evil that we are all to eager to embrace with a rationale of religion and/or politics.
Hitler was one of us.
Movie Review: An experience more than a movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Someone said that this movie will defy and challenge the critics, and I can testify to that. I concede that it's beyond my capacity to really do justice to 7 1/2 hours of poetry, performance art, puppetry, theatre, history, philosophy, music and spectacle focusing on the person and legacy of Adolf Hitler. At the very least, it can be safely said that it's like no movie you've ever seen before. However, there is one thing I'd like to comment on.
Although it hardly needs to be said that the movie is anti-Hitler, the overall effect was something very different to me. With its extensive use of Hitler's speeches and writings, set against a soundtrack of the most powerful Wagnerian scores, and played against a rear projection of mountains, galaxies and other scenes of monumental grandeur, with its Germanic philosophizing and obsessive rumination on the minutia of this man's life and influence, this film seems to have achieved an effect not dissimilar to that of the Nuremberg rallies, which was to make Hitler into a cosmological figure, an avatar, a deity of sorts. Someone said that that was precisely the purpose of the filmmaker, who wanted to show how Hitler appealed to the German people. Well, if that was so, he did a bang-up job. Hitler, I think, wouldn't be altogether displeased, despite the somewhat uncomplimentary portrayals in certain parts; after all, the sheer magnitude of the attention, whether positive or negative, that he commands this long after his physical demise immortalizes him in a way; "let them hate, so long as I dominate their thoughts." It's interesting that the director, Syberberg, has gotten in trouble for comments he made about what he called the soulless and tyrannical Jewish spirit that has seduced the race of "superior men" in postwar Europe. Whether that means he was subconsciously magnifying Hitler in this film, I don't know, but this movie is a must-see for anyone fascinated by this man Hitler whom history cannot ignore or forget.
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