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...20th century, this very democratic leader who eliminated unemployment, who failed as an artist and so projected his fantasies onto the world of earth and people and blood, who knew "what every little man wanted--to be great." And after seven hours of mannequins and puppet Hitlers, Goerings, Goebbels and Speers and props from the attic of German history, Hitler becomes the common man, everyman, including ourselves--not an aberration in history, but an integral part and natural consequence of it--he is our progenitor, our mentor, as well as our innermost dread...
...spared in Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's seven-hour misty epic, Our Hitler, least of all the audience. Syberberg seeks to resurrect Hitler and pit him against the world he left behind--a filmic judgment day for Der Fuhrer--and the audience is forced to look into its own eyes. Confusion. No connections. No conclusions. "The results are exhilarating, confounding, and not at all closeended," critic David A. Rosse from the University of California at Berkeley, correctly pointed out. Ultimately, your judgment of Syberberg's Hitler hinges on how you judge your most intimate self...
This is not a film for the masses, Syberberg seems to say in every frame. The authoritarian director guides the work through monologues, dialogues with Hitler, the confessions of Himmler and Hitler, all of it set in the same small studio. The props reconstruct a dream world--often surrealistic--and the actors walk amidst the mannequins in front of slide projections of Hitler's Obersalzburg mansion, his party rallies, old photographs. There are four parts, 22 chapters, and significant hunks of the work deliberately bore, like a condescending challenge, 'Are you good enough to keep up with...
Through montage, Hitlers flash briefly in various modes. Hitler as dictator, arm coiled back in statuesque salute; Hitler as paper-hanger--perhaps the most brilliant characterization--at work in overalls and roller, cursing the Jews and grumbling to himself about politics. Hitler as Chaplin, entertainer. Hitler's face is mocked: the haircut and moustache, his trademarks. Anyone can wear that face--like kindergarten games, drawing the hair over the forehead and the tufted whiskers above the lip on pictures of people in magazines; yes, anyone can look like Adolph Hitler--he is the common man playing out his most banal...
...protect that generation from the emotional shock of learning what the Nazis did. Anne Sommerfeld-Halliwell, a survivor's child and a Yale psychologist, reports that her daughter Naria, 4, already wants to know "Will the bad men come here?" Her son Eli wrote a poem about assassinating Hitler, and at age nine, he is shaken by recurring fantasies of revenge. Says their mother, who is studying the effects of the Holocaust across generations: "When there's a traumatic event of such magnitude, it just doesn't go away with time...