Schwarze Sonne (1998)

Schwarze Sonne (1998). 1h 30m

“Itu0026#39;s a critically sinister documentary and very comprehensive as such of all the figures that contributed to making the cult of nazism into what it was. Many questions are answered, and many other questions are posed. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn the beginning the film is fairly instructive and arouses only positive interest in all those speculators in ancient occultism, beginning with Helena Blavatsky and her u0026quot;discoveryu0026quot; of Atlantis as the home of the Hyperboreans or Aryans. Many others follow in her footsteps developing the myth and cult of nazism, gradually growing more definite as mythomaniacs. When it comes to Hitler the film turns more critical with a more and more definite detachment and objectivity to the gigantic shipwreck of Germany, leading a whole people astray to disaster by sheer delusion.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMany are fooled by the first impression of this film to believe itu0026#39;s a kind of modern Nazi propaganda, while itu0026#39;s actually the opposite. After the film you feel a bitter aftertaste and are left wondering how an entire people could be fooled by such fancies. The greatest question and problem is that very phenomenon: how the German masses could be so enthused by such a craze. It will probably remain unexplainable forever.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film is expertly done, however. It stays consistently restrained and detached in relation to its subject and is like an admirable and difficult surgical operation of an ideological cancer. The hope is that it will not return.”