The Architecture of Doom

The Architecture of Doom

Infobox_Film
name = Undergångens arkitektur


caption =
director = Peter Cohen
producer = Peter Cohen
writer = Peter Cohen
starring = Rolf Arsenius (narrator)
Bruno Ganz (German narrator)
music = Peter Cohen
Sven Ahlin
Richard Wagner (non-original music)
cinematography = Mikael Cohen
Gerhard Fromm
Peter Östlund
editing =
distributor =
released = flagicon|SWE October 13, 1989
runtime = 119 min.
country = Sweden
language = Swedish
German (German version)
budget =
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amg_id = 119117
imdb_id = 0098559|

Undergångens arkitektur ("The Architecture of Doom") is a 1989 documentary directed by Swedish director Peter Cohen and narrated by Rolf Arsenius (in the German version, narration is done by actor Bruno Ganz).

The film explores the obsession Adolf Hitler had with his own particular vision of what was and was not aesthetically acceptable and how he applied these notions while running the Third Reich. His obsession with art he considered pure, in opposition to the supposedly degenerate avant-garde works by Jewish and Soviet artists, reveals itself to be deeply connected to Hitler's equally subjective and strict ideal of physical beauty and health.

Hitler is shown as an amateur architect who spends a lot of time planning designs of new buildings for the Reich and acquiring paintings and sculptures that reinforce his vision. At one point in the film, Cohen questions Hitler's grasp of reality.

See also

* Nazi architecture
* Eugenics

External links

[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2253181077611597034 The Architecture of Doom on Google Video]


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