In Wheeler Auditorium Admission $3.00 per showtime or $5.00 for both. There will be a 90-minute break at 5:30 PM. Tickets will be sold beginning 45 minutes before each showtime.

“One of the great works of art of the 20th Century” --Susan Sontag

“Now considered a major achievement of this century, Our Hitler has a checkered history. After hostility from the German press and public, it ran commercially for six months in Paris, was successfully screened in its entirety on British television, and was awarded the prize for ‘Most Innovative Film of 1977' by the British Film Institute, before Coppola's ‘Omni-Zoetrope' took a chance on an American city showcase release (after test screenings in conjunction with PFA).
“Often compared to Griffith's Intolerance and Stroheim's Greed for its length and audacity, it is the third in Syberberg's Wagnerian trilogy (Ludwig II (1972), Karl May (1974)) about the founding of modern Germany. Once again, the format is a series of stylized tableaux before back-projections, crammed with references to German history and mythology and the ever-present past of German and American cinema, with one of the most varied and ambitious soundtracks ever made. To the sounds of Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart, Nazi marches, American radio shows and Hitler's broadcasts, Hitler is identified with Chaplin's Great Dictator, Dr. Caligari, Napoleon, Wagner's ghost, and Peter Lorre's child-murderer in Lang's M. ‘Syberberg's confidence that his art is adequate to his great subject derives from his idea of cinema as a way of knowing that incites speculation to take a self-reflexive turn. Hitler is depicted through examining our relation to Hitler (the theme is “our Hitler” and “Hitler-in-us”), as the rightly unassimilable horrors of the Nazi era are represented, in Syberberg's film, as images or signs.... Syberberg offers a spectacle about spectacle: evoking “the big show” called history in a variety of dramatic modes--fairy tale, circus, morality play, allegorical pageant, magic ceremony, philosophical dialogue, totentanz--with an imaginary cast of tens of millions, and, as protagonist, the Devil himself.' (Susan Sontag).” --Richard Kwietniowski