Hitler: The Rise of Evil
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| Genre | Biographical film |
| Running time | 150 min. |
| Distributor | CBS |
| Written by | John Pielmeier G. Ross Parker |
| Directed by | Christian Duguay |
| Produced by | John Ryan Ed Gernon Peter Sussman |
| Starring | Robert Carlyle Stockard Channing Peter O'Toole Peter Stormare |
| Editor(s) | Sylvain Lebel Stephen R. Myers Henk Van Eeghen |
| Music by | Normand Corbeil |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Release date(s) | May 18, 2003 |
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a TV miniseries that aired in two parts in May 2003 on CBS, and was produced by Alliance Atlantis. The film explores Adolf Hitler's rise and his early consolidation of power during the years after World War I and focuses closely on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted German society after war made that ascent possible. The movie attempts to illustrate how Hitler's anti-Semitism became central to his political mission in Germany and found broad acceptance 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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[edit] Cast
- Robert Carlyle as Adolf Hitler
- Stockard Channing as Klara Hitler
- Jena Malone as Geli Raubal
- Julianna Margulies as Helene Hanfstaengl
- Matthew Modine as Fritz Gerlich
- Liev Schreiber as Ernst Hanfstaengl
- Peter Stormare as Ernst Röhm
- Friedrich von Thun as Erich Ludendorff
- Peter O'Toole as Paul von Hindenburg
- Zoe Telford as Eva Braun
- Terence Harvey as Gustav von Kahr
- Justin Salinger as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
- Chris Larkin as Hermann Göring
- James Babsen as Rudolf Hess
- Patricia Netzer as Sophie Gerlich
- Harvey Friedman as Friedrich Hollaender
- Nicole Marischka as Blandine Ebinger
- Julie-Ann Hassett as Angela Hitler
- Thomas Sangster as Hitler age 10
- Simon Sullivan as Hitler age 17
- Robert Glenister as Anton Drexler
- Ian Hogg as Alois Hitler
[edit] Historical Inaccuracies and Criticism
Originally, famed Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw had been on board as a consultant in the production of Hitler: The Rise of Evil. However, Kershaw found the miniseries to be rife with falsehoods and historical inaccuracies regarding Hitler's life and so chose to have his name removed from the project. [2]
[edit] Promotion
In Australia, the film was aired on the Seven Network. The network initially used a promotion which went as follows:
Boy 1: "When I grow up, I want to be a fireman." (shows drawing a fire truck)
Narrator: "Every child needs encouragement..."
Girl: "When I grow up, I want to be a nurse." (shows drawing of a hospital)
Narrator: "But what if you encouraged the wrong child?"
Boy 2: "When I grow up, I want to be much, much more..." (shows child violently drawing a Nazi flag)
The advertisement then proceeded to show the trailer for the film. After some review, the network decided that it was inappropriate to use such a tone to promote a film about Hitler, so the initial scenes were removed and the standard trailer was shown.
[edit] See also
Filmed in Barrandov Studios (Prague) Sabaton - Attero Dominatus
[edit] References
- ^ 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.
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