The Architecture of Doom

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Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside Hitler's bunker, this sensational film shows how Adolf Hitler rose from being a failed artist to creating a world of ponderous kitsch and horrifying terror. Hitler worshipped ancient Rome and Greece, and dreamed of a new Golden Age of classical art and monumental architecture, populated by beautiful, patriotic Aryans. Degenerated artists and inferior races had no place in his lurid fantasy. As this riveting film shows, the Nazis went from banning the art of modernists like Picasso to forced euthanasia of the retarded and sick, and finally to the persecution of homosexuals and the extermination of the Jews.

Country:

Sweden

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

119 minutes

Year:

1989

Director:

Peter Cohen

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Company:

Poj Filmproduktion AB,

SVT Drama,

Sandrews,

Svenska Filminstitutet

Cast:
Rolf Arsenius

Swedish narrator (voice)

Bruno Ganz

German narrator (voice)

Jeanne Moreau

French narrator (voice)

Sam Gray

English narrator (voice)

Crew:
Peter Cohen

Director

Peter Cohen

Writer

Mikael Cohen

Cinematography

Gerhard Fromm

Cinematography

Peter Östlund

Cinematography