Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)

Directed by

Christian Duguay

Genre

drama television series, historical television series, biographical television program

Country

Canada

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 366 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This miniseries follows Adolf Hitler's political rise after World War One. It shows how Germany's broken economy and society let him gain power. A journalist named Fritz Gerlich tries to stand against the Nazi Party.

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What happens

Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a 2003 Canadian television miniseries in two parts, directed by Christian Duguay and produced by Alliance Atlantis. It stars Robert Carlyle in the lead role and explores Adolf Hitler's rise and his early consolidation of power during the years after the First World War 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, for Art Direction and Sound Editing, while Peter O'Toole was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. The film's subplot follows the struggles of Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist who opposes the rising Nazi Party. The quotation disputably attributed to Edmund Burke is displayed at the beginning and end of the film, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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