Documentary - 86 mins
Audience - General
Classification - Exempt
Region - 0
Format - PAL
Language - English

Product weight 120g

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First ever DVD release of this David Puttnam produced documentary on the Nazi's manipulative rises to power in a time of chaos.

The renowned German filmmaker, Lutz Becker's The Double Headed Eagle is a dramatic documentary tracing the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party through the social chaos of the Weimar Republic. It shows how they provoked, manipulated and exploited this chaos between 1918-1933.

Their victims were the vast majority of the politically uncommitted democratic sections of society. The film highlights a disintegrating society and reveals parallels with contemporary social and political problems. By demonstrating these parallels Puttnam's film makes Hitler's rise more understandable and in many ways more chilling.

Told entirely through rare archive footage without narration The Double Headed Eagle represents the schizophrenic condition. The search for a clear cut identity in a polarised society slowly abandons the idea of democracy for dictatorship and anarchy for order. The victim turns persecutor.

(From the back cover)

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