ID

FBW000026      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1962

Original Title

Hitler

Other Title(s)

Women of Nazi Germany [ST]

Directed by

Stuart Heisler

Produced by

Three Crown / Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Staff

Producer: E. Charles Straus; Script: E. Charles Straus, Sam Neuman; Camera: Joseph Biroc; Special optical effects: Daniel W. Hays; Editing: Walter Hannemann; Art direction: William Glasgow; Set decoration: Frank Tuttle; Music: Hans J. Salter

Cast

Richard Basehart (Adolf Hitler); Cordula Trantow (Geli Raubal); Maria Emo (Eva Braun); John Mitchum (Hermann Goering); Celia Lovsky (Frau Raubal); Martin Kosleck (Joseph Goebbels); John Banner (Gregor Strasser); Martin Brandt (Gen. Heinz Guderian); John Wengraf (Dr. Morell); William Sargent (Lt. Col. Count von Stauffenberg); Narda Onyx (Gretl Braun); Gregory Gaye (Field Marshal Erwin Rommel); Theodore Marcuse (Julius Streicher); Berry Kroeger (Ernst Roehm); Rick Traeger (Heinrich Himmler); Lester Fletscher (Lt. Edmond Heines); Albert Szabo (Emil Maurice); G. Stanley Jones (Martin Bormann); Walter Kohler (Gen. Alfred Jodi); Carl Esmond (Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel); Norbert Schiller (Schoenberg); Ted Knight (Maj. Buch); Willy Kaufman (Wagner); Sirry Steffen (Anna); John Siegfried (Schmidt); Otto Reichow (SS Officer)

Length

107'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

A dramatization of Hitler's personal life telling of the effects of his personality on the women closest to him. This film puts as much emphasis on Hitler's sexual confusion as it does on the world-shaking events he set in motion. Theorizing that Hitler suffered from impotence as a result of his fixation with his mother, the film deals with his early relationship with his young niece Geli Raubal and his later coupling with Eva Braun. Along the way, it also chronicles the more familiar story of his rise to power.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- Krafsur, Richard P. (Ed.): The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures. Feature Films 1961-1970, New York, NY / London: R.R. Browker Company, 1976
- Schwab, Lothar (Red.): Exil. Sechs Schauspieler aus Deutschland. Wolgang Zilzer (Paul Andor), Bd. 6, Berlin/West: Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, 1983
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987
- Martin, Len D.: The Allied Artists Checklist. The Feature Films and Short Subjects of Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, 1947-1978. Jefferson, NC / London: McFarland, 1993