

3 votes
1940
1h 45m
The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-so-subtle condemnation of Hitler, Nazism and Germany by the movie's French film makers, which conveniently makes no mention of how the policies of Great Britain and France created Hitler and allowed him to go as far as he did prior to the beginning of the Second World War.
Directed by Alexandre Ryder

Roger Karl
Le colonel
Line Noro
Frieda
Alexandre Mihalesco
le tailleurJean Heuzé
le capitaine autrichienSandra Milovanoff
Madame Schleicher
André Valmy
Ernst
Nicolas Amato
le sous-lieutenant
Simone Bourday

Georges Fronval
Adolf HitlerDalmaïs
Engelbert Dollfuss
Alain Cuny
Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Pierre Labry
Ernst Roehm
Jacques Henley
General Kurt von SchleicherAlbert Monys
Adolf Hitler jeune
Fernand Bellan

Marfa d'Hervilly
Guy Denancy

Philippe Hersent

Jacqueline Noëlle
Ketty Pierson
Status
Released
Release date
March 9, 1940
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Language
French