Name: The Goebbels Experiment
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005
Duration: 1 min 47 s
Cast: Kenneth Branagh

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Lutz Hachmeister

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Film Details

Also Known As

Goebbels Experiment

MPAA Rating

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

2005

Production Company

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Zdf)

Distribution Company

First Run Features; First Run Features; First Run Features Home Video; Salzgeber & Co. Medien Gmbh

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 47m

Synopsis

The Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler speaks in first person as actor Kenneth Branagh reads pages of the diary kept by the chief of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, revealing the man's most inner thoughts. Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) was a symbol of Germany's Nazi regime and a twentieth-century icon of maniacal cruelty. His name has been synonymous with cynical, unscrupulous, and at times successful, propaganda. The life of Joseph Goebbels is far more complicated and disturbing than labels like "genius of spin" or "Reich Liar-General" would suggest. The chronicle shows how Goebbels continually "restaged" and reinvented himself--from his early days as a radical "popular socialist" to his tragic end. The film lets Goebbels speak for himself through the diaries he kept without interruption from 1924 to 1945, as never before seen historical footage from German archives traces the life of the second most powerful man of the Third Reich, detailing his initial attraction to the Nazi party and his adoration of Hitler.