Färgfilm om Hitler

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Found: Hitler's Horrors in Full Colour

Newly discovered colour footage renders the führer more vividly and uncomfortably real than ever before.

By Guardian Newspapers, 4/9/2005





Adolf Hitler stands before the Nazi faithful at Nuremberg, exhorting them to realise the destiny of the thousand-year Reich. A familiar image in grainy black and white, this time the scene is played out in full colour, a legion of swastikas set on blood-red banners which Hitler described as having 'the effect of a burning torch'.

But this is not a clip from the hit film Downfall about the last days of the führer - it is newly discovered, colour footage which renders him more vividly and uncomfortably real than ever before.

The 1938 Nuremberg rally in its brilliant and terrifying colours is just one of the dramatic images which can be seen for the first time in Hitler in Colour, a ground-breaking documentary to be released just after the 60th anniversary of his suicide on 30 April.

Exhaustive research has uncovered missing footage of often stunning clarity from archives, libraries and private collections in Germany, America and around the world. It includes film of the 1936 Berlin Olympics shot by an American spectator, a bizarre Roman-style pageant in Munich to celebrate 2,000 years of German culture and a visit by Mussolini to Berlin filmed by a Dutch tourist. Austrian villagers are shown welcoming the German army, and there is footage of Hitler's triumphant visit to a captured Polish airfield, German troops on the outskirts of Stalingrad and 15-year-olds playing around an anti-aircraft gun in Hamburg.

Narrated by the actor Brian Cox and complemented by readings from diaries and letters, including Hitler's own, the documentary charts the 12 years from Hitler's rise to power to the fall of Berlin.

It includes more familiar colour pictures of Hitler with his lover Eva Braun, as well as anti-Semitic posters, wartime Berlin, the outside of his bunker, the launch of V2 rockets and the horrifying mountain of corpses at Buchenwald concentration camp.

One of the discoveries was film shot by Hitler's pilot, Hans Baur, unearthed at a Hamburg film library which was always assumed to possess only newsreels made after 1945.

David Batty, producer of Hitler in Colour, said: 'Hitler's rise to power mirrored the rise of colour film. In the Thirties there were two colour film studios: Agfa in Germany and Kodak in America. Hitler had an eye for PR and realised the power of colour film so he handed it to his cronies.

'We believe Hitler was the most filmed person in the world up to his death.'

'Hitler in Colour' is released on DVD by Warner Vision International on 2 May.

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This is just another excuse for running Second World War colour film under a very erroneous title, dont get me wrong theres some good stuff here but nothing you havent seen before. For one its too short, a lot of the good clips are cut to short as well and it would have been titled; Third Reich in Colour part 2.

Har sett lite färgfilm från kriget, nånting från östfronten bl.a., men såvitt jag minns endast amatörfilmer - om Hitler verkligen "realised the power of colour film" så har det inte märkts särskilt mycket.

[a81]

Har läst någonstans att mycket filmades i färg, men gjordes om till svart-vitt för att inte uppröra biopubliken. Det blir mycket mer realistiskt med färg...

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[Solkungen]

Betvivlar starkt att det filmades i färg men visades i svart-vitt, och även om det är sant så skulle ju färgfilmerna finnas kvar i samma grad som den s/v. Även om färgfilmernas kvalité lämnar en del övrigt att önska. Undrar om de var dåliga redan från början eller om det är tiden som gör många av dem rent bedrövliga att se på?
Ett exempel perfekt färgfilm av gammalt datum är fårstås "Borta med vinden" från 1939, det är inte mycket i den som skvallrar om åldern på filmen.

Önskar att det funnits mer visbart färgmaterial att sända i TV, som det varit med 4:ans serier har de varit rätt meningslösa program. De försöker berätta krigets historia till bilderna, men eftersom det säkert gick 1000m s/v film på 1 m färgfilm så blir luckorna i berättelserna väl stora.