HITLER - THE RISE OF EVIL 2003 (part 4 of 12)

Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a Canadian TV miniseries in two parts, directed by Christian Duguay and produced by Alliance Atlantis. It explores Adolf Hitler's rise and his early consolidation of power during the years after World War I and focuses on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted state of German society following the war made that ascent possible. The film also focuses on Ernst Hanfstaengl's influence on Hitler's rise to power. The miniseries, which premiered simultaneously in May 2003 on CBC in Canada and CBS in the United States, received two Emmy awards. The film's subplot follows the struggles of Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist who opposes the rising National Socialist German Workers Party. He is portrayed as to fulfill the essence of the quotation disputably attributed to Edmund Burke, which is displayed at the beginning and at the end of the film: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." The story revolves around Adolf Hitler, from his childhood with his authoritarian father Alois and beloved mother Klara, to his life as a destitute student trying to pursue a career as an artist. It also documents his gradual embrace of anti-semitism. Hitler is then shown to join the German Workers' Party and befriends Ernst Röhm, leading to the Munich Beer Hall Putsch and finally his quest to become Chancellor of Germany. In this film, Hitler's rise is largely attributed to Ernst Hanfstaengl, who finances his cause and provides him with political connections. Hitler is shown to harbor romantic feelings for Hanfstaengel's wife, Helene. Hitler's friendship with Röhm is also well highlighted — including the latter's homosexuality — as well as his relationship with his niece Geli Raubal, and her mysterious death.
Major events shown in the later stages of the film are the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag Fire, the announcement of the Enabling Act, the Night of the Long Knives, and finally the death of President Hindenburg and subsequent burial in the Tannenberg memorial, where Hitler declares the "1000-year Reich" as his voice is drowned in the chants of "Sieg Heil" from an adoring crowd.

CAST:

Robert Carlyle (Adolf Hitler)
Stockard Channing (Klara Hitler)
Jena Malone (Geli Raubal)
Julianna Margulies (Helene Hanfstaengl)
Matthew Modine (Fritz Gerlich)
Liev Schreiber (Ernst Hanfstaengl)
Peter Stormare (Ernst Röhm)
Friedrich von Thun (General Erich Ludendorff)
Peter O'Toole (President Paul von Hindenburg)
Zoe Telford (Eva Braun)
Terence Harvey (Gustav von Kahr)
Justin Salinger (Dr. Joseph Goebbels)
Chris Larkin (Hermann Göring)
James Babson (Rudolf Hess)
Patricia Netzer (Sophie Gerlich)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Hitler
• The Rise of Evil
• 2003
• tv
• fuhrer
• war
• germany
• Deutschland
• Adolf Hitler
• Klara Hitler
• Geli Raubal
• Helene Hanfstaengl
• Fritz Gerlich
• Ernst Rohm
• Erich Ludendorff
• Hindenburg
• Eva Braun
• Joseph Goebbels

[Lucyy98Music]

@WipeOut180 What the...?! I don't listen to any sh*t the media writes about people I judge people for who I see them as, Hitler was nothing more to me than what I said; I personally don't care if he thought he was doing good, he wasn't - and to be hinest you sound like you don't know what you're talking about to me -_-

[RyanBrooksby]

@WipeOut180

The civillians not fighting the war thought about cars...

And no, I would've not HANDED over my nation to the Russians. In fact, I wouldn't have fucking attacked Russia in the first place if I were Hitler.

OBVIOUSLY Russia is unconquerable. Hitler, Napoleon, No-one has ever conquered Russia.

[WipeOut180]

@RyanBrooksby There are no casualties in war, and basically I was arguing about the supposed cowardice of Hitler, I would've blown my own fucking brains out too rather than be captures and hung anyways, at least this way I take destiny into my own hands. Last time I checked France declared war on Germany in WW1, they charged into war with no provocation and they wanted reperations after? fuck that. As for the Volkswagens? who the fuck cares, there was a war going on. None was thinking about cars

[jeb5896]

@MrBolas33 that's because obama is a punk

[MrBolas33]

Hitler makes obama look like a punk. And he didn't need no stinking TelePrompTer.

[swevixeh1]

@swevixeh1 Of course, he probably wouldn't have fraternized with his old World war I enemies. Still, it could've worked in theory.

[RyanBrooksby]

@ludicrus32

;there are no good or evil men, all men have no morals. There are only black and white choices.

[RyanBrooksby]

@WipeOut180

Versailles was payback for what Germany did to France, giving them the original treaty of versailles.

He did fuck all for his people, he killed himself instead of fight on, he abandoned the sixth army costing 800,000 lives, and he made stupid mistakes.

e.g Operation Barbarossa, Sealion...

Not to mention never giving out Volkswagens when he promised to.

[RyanBrooksby]

@swevixeh1

but he needed to invade Poland, or else:

A: Germany goes bankrupt

or B: USSR Invades Poland -> Germany -> Europe

[swevixeh1]

If he had never invaded poland, Hitler may very well have gone into the history books as one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known, as he did have quite a lot of support from non-communists before he started his bloody campaign through Europe