The Empty Mirror
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Barry J Hershey
Joel Grey
Peter Michael Goetz
Glenn Shadix
Doug Mckeon
Camilla Soeberg
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
An intellectual, psychological and historical exercise fuelling the basis of a hallucinatory psychodrama which provides Adolf Hitler with the dramatic opportunity to recapitulate, explain and analyze his insidious career. The virtual one-man performance piece imagines a postwar Hitler holed up in an underground bunker dictating his memoirs to a blond officer, prodded by memories provided by the constant projection of movies documenting his glory years, and provoked by discussions with such inner-circle figures as Eva Braun, Hermann Goering and Josef Goebbels, as well as Sigmund Freud. Through Hitler's stream-of-consciousness soliloquies and his exchanges with phantom guests, the audience receives a terrifying primer on genius and psychosis, domination and destruction.
Director
Barry J Hershey
Crew
R Buckingham
Tim Colohan
Judy Courtney
William Dance
William Dance
Fred Elmes
Melinda Eshelman
John C Frizzell
Marc Grossman
Barry J Hershey
Barry J Hershey
David Johnson
David Johnson
David Kneupper
David Kneupper
Philip Mayor
Glenn T Morgan
Glenn T Morgan
Jay Roach
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1998
Released in United States April 1998
Released in United States August 14, 1997
Released in United States January 29, 1997
Released in United States May 1996
Released in United States October 1996
Released in United States on Video September 2, 2003
Released in United States Spring May 7, 1999
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (Critics Week) May 9-20, 1996.
Shown at Cinequest 1998: The San Jose Film Festival January 29 - February 4, 1998.
Shown at USA Film Festival in Dallas April 16-23, 1998.
Feature directorial debut for award-winning academic and shorts filmmaker Barry J. Hershey.
Includes newsreel footage from the 1920s and 1930s, Nazi propaganda footage, Eva Braun's home movies, and images culled from Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph des Willens/Triumph of the Will" (Germany/1935).
Released in United States 1998 (Shown at Cinequest 1998: The San Jose Film Festival January 29 - February 4, 1998.)
Released in United States January 29, 1997 (Shown in Los Angeles (American Cinematheque) as part of series "The Alternative Screen: A Forum For Independent Film Exhibition and Beyond..." January 29, 1997.)
Released in United States April 1998 (Shown at USA Film Festival in Dallas April 16-23, 1998.)
Released in United States May 1996 (Shown at Cannes Film Festival (Critics Week) May 9-20, 1996.)
Released in United States Spring May 7, 1999
Released in United States August 14, 1997 (Shown in Los Angeles (American Cinematheque) as part of series "The Alternative Screen: A Forum For Independent Film Exhibition and Beyond..." August 14, 1997.)
Released in United States on Video September 2, 2003
Released in United States October 1996 (Shown at AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival (United States) October 18-31, 1996.)
