A few times each decade, the Museum of Modern Art mounts a film retrospective so focused, inclusive, and downright eye-opening, that it begs to become a daily fix. “Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams ...

More an illustration of a prolix thesis than a groundbreaking docu, the film takes Siegfried Kracauer’s seminal 1947 study on Weimar cinema and reiterates numerous points found in the book, with ...

This is the seventh in a series of articles on the recent Berlin film festival, the Berlinale, held February 7-17, 2013. Part 1 was posted on February 21, part 2 on February 27, part 3 on March 1, ...

The years between the end of World War I and the rise of Hitler were tough times for the German people as they were recovering from a monstrous defeat. Still, aspects of German life were humming. 1919 ...

If Joseph Goebbels strove to create a Nazi cinema that matched Hollywood’s, then what of the results? “Hitler’s Hollywood,” an essay film that uses clips to explore the aesthetics, attitudes and ...

The Berlin International Film Festival’s retrospective strand for its 2013 edition is set to focus on Weimar-era films produced after 1933, when the Nazis had taken control of the German film industry ...

While the Weimar Republic is often summarized as a period of "dancing on a volcano" ahead of the Nazi era, cultural historian Sabina Becker tells DW why the period should be revisited for its rich ...

Exceptionally beautiful restored film clips are the main reason to see Ruediger Suchsland’s “From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses.” More an illustration of a prolix thesis ...