Triumph Over Violence
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Mikhail Romm
Duncan Elliott
Charles Diana
Edward Diresta
Edward Diresta
L. Indenbom
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
This analysis of fascism, its rise in Germany in the 1930's, culmination in World War II, and present day manifestations, is compiled largely from German news and archival footage. The film is divided into chapters depicting Hitler's early emotional appeal to the German people (mass rallies, Wagnerian torchlight parades, book-burnings, etc.), the conversion of "nice boys" into storm troopers (stressed by scenes of captured German soldiers with pictures of their loved ones juxtaposed with views of their atrocities), Hitler's eventual rise to absolute power (his conquests, policy of mass murder, crimes against the Jews, and the sealing of Mein Kampf in a vault designed to last 1000 years), and his defeat. (Deletions for the U. S. release include material from the final chapter depicting neo-Nazi movements throughout the world today and the training of U. S. Marines in a manner reminiscent of the indoctrination of Hitler's Brownshirts.)
Director
Mikhail Romm
Crew
Charles Diana
Edward Diresta
Edward Diresta
L. Indenbom
A. Karamanov
Yuriy Khanyutin
German Lavrov
Materprim S. A.
S. Minervin
Mikhail Romm
Mikhail Romm
Mayya Turovskaya
B. Vengerovskiy
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Produced in the U.S.S.R. in 1965 as Obyknovennyy fashizm and released in two parts; combined running time: 130-140 min. Shown in Great Britain in 1966, narrated in English by Duncan Elliott; running time: 128 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States September 1988
Shown at Toronto Festival of Festivals September 8-17, 1988.
reels 7 (Part One)
reels 7 (Part Two)
Released in United States September 1988 (Shown at Toronto Festival of Festivals September 8-17, 1988.)
