My Crimes After Mein Kampf

My Crimes After Mein Kampf

1940 · 105 min · ★ 5.3 · Drama, History, War

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 · Written by Josef Lautenschlager

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Cast

Roger Karl Le colonel
Line Noro Frieda
Alexandre Mihalesco le tailleur
Jean Heuzé le capitaine autrichien
Sandra Milovanoff Madame Schleicher
André Valmy Ernst
Nicolas Amato le sous-lieutenant
Simone Bourday
Georges Fronval Adolf Hitler
Dalmaïs Engelbert Dollfuss
Alain Cuny Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Pierre Labry Ernst Roehm

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