Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Louis Clyde Stoumen |
| script | Louis Clyde Stoumen |
| production | Louis Clyde Stoumen |
| music | Ezra Laderman |
| cut |
Kenn Collins , Richard Kaplan , Mark Wortreich |
Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler is an American documentary from 1962 .
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The film interweaves the fable Reineke Fuchs by Johann Wolfgang Goethe with the life of the German dictator Adolf Hitler . Like the Fox, Hitler used demagoguery, malice and psychological tricks to achieve his political goals while proving his sincerity and right to political leadership.
Hitler's career is presented. He started out as a shrewd conspirator and a very effective speaker who responded to the bitterness and wishes of the losers in the war. Hitler's rise to Chancellor under Hindenburg, his maneuvers with the Communists as opponents and allies and his unprecedented cruelty towards helpless victims serve as an ironic counterpoint to Reineke's experiences in the animal world.
Hitler's destructiveness and self-destructive behavior is expressed through World War II and his death in the bunker.
Reviews
TimeOut London found that the semi-allegorical documentary offered no surprises, but repeated some interesting points. Hitler is portrayed seriously and intelligently in a historical context.
Awards
In 1963 the film was awarded an Oscar in the category Best Documentary .
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The premiere took place on April 29, 1963 in New York.
Gustave Doré's illustrations of the Divine Comedy by the poet Dante Alighieri , etchings by Wilhelm von Kaulbach and paintings by Byron Goto, Pablo Picasso and George Grosz were used to depict the fable.
The speaker was Marlene Dietrich .
Web links
- Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ criticism from TimeOut London (engl.) ( Page no longer available , searching web archives ) Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
