HITLER’S HOLLYWOOD

German critic-filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland will collaborate again with Berlin-based LOOKS Filmproduktionen and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation for his next project HITLER’S HOLLYWOOD after successfully working together on FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER which premiered at the 2014 Venice Film Festival in the Venice Classics sidebar.

Explaining the new project’s title, Suchsland says that “Hollywood was always something that the Nazis wanted to emulate. Speeches and documents provide evidence that there was a clear plan by the Nazis, and particularly Goebbels and Hitler, to establish a kind of alternative Hollywood, to copy Hollywood’s international success and to use it for Nazi ideology.”