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Hitler: The Rise of Evil
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| Hitler: The Rise of Evil | |
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 A Scene from Hitler: The Rise of Evil depicting the Beer Hall Putsch. From left to right in foreground: Ernst Hanfstaengl (Liev Schreiber), Adolf Hitler (Robert Carlyle), and Herman Goering (Chris Larkin). Behind Goering is Rudolf Hess (James Babsen). |
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| Directed by | Christian Duguay |
| Produced by | John Ryan Ed Gernon Peter Sussman |
| Written by | John Pielmeier G. Ross Parker |
| Starring | Robert Carlyle Stockard Channing Peter O'Toole Peter Stormare |
| Music by | Normand Corbeil |
| Cinematography | Pierre Gill |
| Editing by | Sylvain Lebel Stephen R. Myers Henk Van Eeghen |
| Distributed by | CBS |
| Release date(s) | May 18, 2003 |
| Running time | 150 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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| All Movie Guide profile | |
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a TV movie that aired in two parts in May 2003 on CBS, and was produced by Alliance Atlantis. The film explores Adolf Hitler's rise to power during the years prior to World War II and focuses closely on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted German society after World War I made that ascent possible. The movie attempts to illustrate how Hitler's hatred of the Jews became central to his political mission in Germany and found a broad resonance among the German public. Also central to the plot is the influence that Ernst Hanfstaengl had on Hitler's rise.
The subplot of this film follows the struggles of Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist who opposes the rising National Socialist German Workers Party. He is portrayed in the role of a martyr to fulfill the essence of the quotation attributed to[1] Edmund Burke [1], which is displayed at the beginning and at the end of the film:
- "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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This movie has been heavily criticised by historians and Hitler experts as portraying an anti-social, almost autistic Hitler who behaves contrary to what is known about the man.[attribution needed] For example, Hitler, who loved animals, is shown beating a small dog in an early scene, which is a completely fictional event. Contrastingly, the German film Der Untergang has been commended for a very realistic and "human" portrayal of Adolf Hitler, unlike the usual "cartoon villain" of many other productions.
- Robert Carlyle as Adolf Hitler
- Peter O'Toole as Paul von Hindenburg
- Matthew Modine as Fritz Gerlich
- Justin Salinger as Joseph Goebbels
- Chris Larkin as Herman Goering
- James Babsen as Rudolf Hess
- Friedrich Von Thun as Erich Ludendorff
- Peter Stormare as Ernst Röhm
- Stockard Channing as Klara Hitler
- Julianna Margulies as Helene Hanfstaengl
- Liev Schreiber as Ernst Hanfstaengl
- Jena Malone as Geli Raubal
Filmed in Barrandov Studios (Prague) Roger Denesha as Courtroom Reporter
- ^ Boller, Jr., Paul F.; George, John (1989). They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505541-1.
- CBS's Hitler: The Rise of Evil website
- Hitler: The Rise of Evil at the Internet Movie Database
- Alliance Atlantis' website
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