Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen

Rüdiger Suchsland sets a parallel between the freedom of the Weimar Republic’s film industry and the imminent threats of its democratic society (the economic recession and the rise of extremist movements) through the films of Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, G.W. Pabst, Joseph von Sternberg, and the beginnings of Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch.)