Hitler's Hitparade
Twenty-five songs popular in the Third Reich compose the musical constituent part of the film that puts in a line, side by side, the fragments of period film hits, dancing creations from musicals, amateur films, animated films, instructional films, advertisements, propagandistic materials and docume...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | German |
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Cay Wesnigk Filmproduktion
2003
Germany |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:f0c3c351-3351-4d03-89cc-4df82d11d8dc |
| Summary: | Twenty-five songs popular in the Third Reich compose the musical constituent part of the film that puts in a line, side by side, the fragments of period film hits, dancing creations from musicals, amateur films, animated films, instructional films, advertisements, propagandistic materials and documentaries made in Germany between the years 1933-45. The syrupy songs open the Aryan aesthetics up ready to remind in a new composition the role of entertainment in the history of Nazi Germany. This film clarifies the dark epoch of the popular music history, the way how it was abused for the fascist objections. The shots refer to the forms of joy and pandering luck, they show the certain attractiveness of the film as well as of the architecture, home design, technique and power of modern weapons. Yet the shots of the impacts of the dictatorship disturb the beauty, making the visual and the musical dimensions of the film drift apart. |
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| Published: | 2003 |