Hitler: A Career (1977) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer.

Cast

• Gert Westphal as Narrator (voice)
• Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)
• Ernest Bevin as Self (archive footage)
• Karl Brandt as Self (archive footage)
• Eva Braun as Self (archive footage)
• Neville Chamberlain as Self (archive footage)
• Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage)
• Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage)
• Édouard Daladier as Self (archive footage)
• Karl Dönitz as Self (archive footage)
• Albert Einstein as Self (archive footage)
• Emperor Franz Josef as Self (archive footage)
• Otto Gebühr as Frederick the Great (archive footage)
• Joseph Goebbels as Self (archive footage)
• Hermann Göring as Self (archive footage)
• Rudolf Hess as Self (archive footage)
• Reinhard Heydrich as Self (archive footage)
• Heinrich Himmler as Self (archive footage)
• Wilhelm Keitel as Self (archive footage)
• King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy as Self (archive footage)
• Fritz Kortner as Self (archive footage)
• Ernst Lubitsch as Self (archive footage)
• Thomas Mann as Self (archive footage)
• Theodor Morell as Self (archive footage)
• Benito Mussolini as Self (archive footage)
• Friedrich Paulus as Self (archive footage)
• Max Reinhardt as Self (archive footage)
• Erwin Rommel as Self (archive footage)
• Ernst Röhm as Self (archive footage)
• Albert Speer as Self (archive footage)
• Richard Tauber as Self (archive footage)
• Joachim von Ribbentrop as Self (archive footage)
• Harry Giese as Narrator (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
• Artur Axmann as Self (archive footage)
• Alfred Jodl as Self (archive footage)

Crew

• Joachim Fest — Director
• Christian Herrendoerfer — Director
• Joachim Fest — Writer
• Werner Rieb — Producer

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