Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Hitler: The Rise of Evil
File:Spe hitler about main photo.jpg A Scene from Hitler: The Rise of Evil depicting the Beer Hall Putsch. From left to right in foreground: Ernst Hanfstaengl (Liev Schreiber), Adolf Hitler (Robert Carlyle), and Herman Goering (Chris Larkin). Behind Goering is Rudolf Hess (James Babsen).
Written by	John Pielmeier G. Ross Parker
Directed by	Christian Duguay
Starring	Robert Carlyle Stockard Channing Peter O'Toole Peter Stormare
Music by	Normand Corbeil
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	John Ryan Ed Gernon Peter Sussman
Cinematography	Pierre Gill
Running time	150 min.
Original release
Release	May 18, 2003

Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a TV miniseries that aired in two parts in May 2003 on CBS, and was produced by Alliance Atlantis. The film explores Adolf Hitler's rise to power during the years prior to World War II and focuses closely on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted German society after World War I made that ascent possible. The movie attempts to illustrate how Hitler's anti-Semitism became central to his political mission in Germany and found a broad resonance among the German public. Also central to the plot is the influence that Ernst Hanfstaengl had on Hitler's rise. The subplot of this film follows the struggles of Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist who opposes the rising National Socialist German Workers Party. He is portrayed in the role of a martyr to fulfill the essence of the quotation attributed to Edmund Burke [1], 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."

Cast

• Robert Carlyle as Adolf Hitler
• Peter O'Toole as Paul von Hindenburg
• Matthew Modine as Fritz Gerlich
• Justin Salinger as Joseph Goebbels
• Chris Larkin as Hermann Göring
• James Babsen as Rudolf Hess
• Friedrich Von Thun as Erich Ludendorff
• Peter Stormare as Ernst Röhm
• Stockard Channing as Klara Hitler
• Julianna Margulies as Helene Hanfstaengl
• Liev Schreiber as Ernst Hanfstaengl
• Jena Malone as Geli Raubal
• Thomas Sangster as Young Hitler

Promotion

In Australia, the film was aired on the Seven Network. The network initially used a promotion which went as follows:
Boy1: "When I grow up, I want to be a fire man" (shows drawing a fire truck)
Narrator: "Every child needs encouragement"
Girl: "When I grow up, I want to be a nurse" (shows drawing of a hospital)
Narrator: "But what if you encouraged the wrong child"
Boy2: "When I grow up, I want to be much, much more...." (shows child violently drawing a Nazi flag)

The advertisement then proceeded to show the trailer for the film. After some review, the network decided that it was inappropriate to use such a tone to promote a film about Hitler, so the initial scenes were removed and the standard trailer was shown.

Quotes

• "...with the music of Wagner as our inspiration! We will crush the communists! We will hang the profiteers!" - Adolf Hitler

• "If I should fall, wrap my body in a swastika band, SEIG HEIL!" - Adolf Hitler

• "Pride. Pride is a weapon. To be used as a sword, against our enemies!" - Adolf Hitler

• "SHE'S MY NIECE FOR GOD'S SAKE! WE GO TO THE OPERA TOGETHER!" - Adolf Hitler

• "It's the Jews they own the galleries, won't buy my paintings, and the Poles, work for next to nothing so I can't get a job." - Adolf Hitler

• "We're talking about Jews here, your supposed to be a nationalist! Never compromise on the Jews"- Adolf Hitler

• "Have you been to the market place? Do you know how much it costs to buy a loaf of bread? 500,000 marks! THE WHEELBARROWS AREN'T BIG ENOUGH TO CARRY THE MONEY IN!" - Adolf Hitler

• "Who said anything about propaganda, we're talking about the truth!" - Adolf Hitler

See also

Filmed in Barrandov Studios (Prague)

External links

• Alliance Atlantis' website