| Hitler: The Rise of Evil | |
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| Written by | John Pielmeier G. Ross Parker |
| Directed by | Christian Duguay |
| Starring | Robert Carlyle Stockard Channing Peter O'Toole Peter Stormare Thomas Sangster Liev Schreiber |
| Music by | Normand Corbeil |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
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| Producers | John Ryan Ed Gernon Peter Sussman |
| Editors | Sylvain Lebel James R. Myers Henk Van Eeghen |
| Running time | 179 minutes |
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| Release | 18 May 2003 |
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a Canadian television miniseries in two parts, directed by Christian Duguay and produced by Alliance Atlantis. It stars Robert Carlyle in the lead role and explores Adolf Hitler's rise and his early consolidation of power during the years after the First World War and focuses on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted state of German society following the war made that ascent possible. The film also focuses on Ernst Hanfstaengl's influence on Hitler's rise to power. The miniseries, which premiered simultaneously in May 2003 on CBC in Canada and CBS in the United States, received two Emmy Awards, for Art Direction and Sound Editing, while Peter O'Toole was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.[1]
The film's subplot follows the struggles of Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist who opposes the rising Nazi Party. The quotation disputably attributed to[2] Edmund Burke is displayed at the beginning and end of the film, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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