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Goebbels Experiment (The)

Country: Germany, Language: German, 108 mins

  • Director: Lutz Hachmeister
  • Writer: Lutz Hachmeister; Michael Kloft
  • Producer: Nick Fraser; Sharon Grimberg

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Was he? Wasn't he? Does it really matter? Rumours were thrown around in the early part of Goebbels' career...but, nothing stuck.

More rumours about how he attended a gay orgy - but, from his diary he was assuredly not gay.

He despised any man who was not manly...well, he wasn't exactly a bruising hunk himself. Perhaps, a self-loathing homo-at-heart...if that was the case...he did a damn fine job in hiding it!

A chilling account from the man himself...and, a chillier final shot.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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. The result is a fascinating psycho-gram of a man who careened extravagantly between self-pity, wild extermination fantasies, and political excesses.

Cast & Characters

Udo Samel as Narrator;
Kenneth Branagh as Narrator;
Heinrich Bruning as Himself;
Winston Churchill as Himself;
Engelbert Dollfuss as Himself;
Wilhelm Frick as Himself;
Josef Goebbels as Himself;
Magda Goebbels as Herself;
Hermann Goring as Himself;
Veit Harlan as Himself;
Rudolf Hess as Himself;
Heinrich Himmler as Himself;
Adolf Hitler as Himself;
Alfred Hugenberg as Himself;
Joe Louis as Himself