"Speer und er" (2005)TV mini-series

Director:

Heinrich Breloer

Writers:

Heinrich Breloer (writer)
Horst Königstein (writer)

Release Date:

9 May 2005 (Germany)

Genre:

Biography | Drama | War

Plot:

A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted...

Plot Keywords:

Lunatic | Political Criminal | Madman | Uniform | Reenactment

Awards:

4 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Sebastian Koch	...	Albert Speer
Tobias Moretti	...	Adolf Hitler
Dagmar Manzel	...	Gretel Speer
Eva Haßmann	...	Eva Braun (as Eva Hassmann)
Peter Rühring	...	Karl Doenitz
André Hennicke	...	Rudolf Hess
Michael Gwisdek	...	Erich Raeder
Elert Bode	...	Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath
Andreas Kallauch	...	(Part 1+2)
Andreas Conrad	...	Hans Frank
Susanne Schäfer	...	Annemarie Kempf
Axel Milberg	...	Rudi Wolters
Erika Marozsán	...	Marion Riesser
Wilfried Hochholdinger	...	Josef Goebbels
Hannes Jaenicke	...	Major Neave

Also Known As:

Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect (UK)

Runtime:

Netherlands:360 min (4 parts) | 270 min (3 parts)

Country:

Germany

Language:

German | English | Russian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Finland:K-15 (self applied) (TV rating) | Netherlands:12 | Netherlands:16 (DVD version) | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany

Company:

Bavaria Media GmbH

Trivia:

This was the first production to accurately recreate Adolf Hitler's study in the Berlin Reich Chancellery. Hitler's desk and all the other furniture in the room were meticulously replicated from period photographs at great time and expense.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Speer und er: Nachspiel - Die Täuschung (2005) (TV)

Grand delusion of his life

Who was this man Albert Speer? What did Speer, minister of Armour, know about the cruel and brutal crimes of the Nazis? For which decisions he bearded charge of responsibility? In usual - and usual perfect and brilliant - method of film collage director Heinrich Breloer take a look behind the masks usually the human being Speer every times tried to vanish. In the middle of the plot of these three thrilling, historical very correct episodes (Third Reich, the Nuremberg judgment, the prison in Spandau) Breloer take the (nearly)amicable relationship between Speer and Adolf Hitler, who admires the giant, megalomaniac architectural projects very much. A terrific transformed, careful directed, wonderful acted (especially Sebastian Koch as Speer, Tobias Moretti as Hitler and Dagmar Manzel as Mrs. Speer) historical view, which shows Speer at first not as notary's manipulator but rather as a smart director of the grand delusion of his life. Try to see it, you will not be disappointed. German television of it's best: I give 8 out of 10 stars.