Hitler's Museum
7.2
One and a half years before the begin of the Second World War during the annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Hitler conceived the megalomaniac idea of creating the largest European art center in his home town of Linz. At the beginning of the war on the 1st of September 1939, not only did his armies advance but also his art thieves began to fan out in their great foray of art plundering; an expedition on a previously unheard of scale began. Not only did the task forces of diverse National Socialist organizations pillage the occupied countries; Nazi bigwigs like Goering also took whatever they felt was valuable. This documentary includes the long and eventful journey of an exceptional masterpiece of European art: the Ghent Altar, created by van Eyck.
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Cast
14 people
David Ritchie
Narrator
Known for
Disgrace
Burkhard Asmuss
Self – Historian
Jan Lorenzen
Sascha Beier
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Also in
War of the Century
Hitler's Last Year
Hannes Schuler
Martin De La Fouchardière
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Also in
The Third Reich: In Private
Pogrzeb Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego 12-V-18-V 1935
Emmanuel Laurent
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
Self – Curator of the Louvre
Frédérique Hébrard
Frédérique Hébrard
Katharina von Flotow
Jan Lorenzen Director · Hannes Schuler Director Jean-Louis Pégorier Composer
First release November 3, 2006 · Produced in Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands · Languages English, French, German
Production
ARTE
Production
Films à Trois
Production
AVRO
Production · Distribution
Ottonia Media GmbH
Production
ORF
Production
AVRO Television
Production
Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Production
Austria · France · Germany · Netherlands
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Sonderauftrag Führermuseum
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · French · German
Release dates
Germany · November 3, 2006
Premiere · Leipzig DOK Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
April 29, 2007 · TV
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