CINEMA NEWS – German filmmaker Joachim A. Lang depicts the seven years Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels spent with Hitler in his film Goebbels, Goebbels and the Führer.

Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, stuck by Hitler for nearly a decade: from the Anschluss in March 1938 until his suicide in the Führerbunker in May 1945. While Hitler was at the height of his power, Goebbels commissioned the anti-Semitic films Jud Süß and Der ewige Jude, which prepared people for the mass murder of Jews. After the defeat at Stalingrad and the increasingly hopeless situation at the end of 1944, Goebbels staged the most radical propaganda action: Hitler’s suicide, the murder of his family, and the taking of his own life.
According to the Rolling Stone magazine critic, the film “shows how effectively Goebbels hid the truth to feed his propaganda machine.” According to the Guardian author, “the film takes the viewer behind the scenes, drawing even more attention to the power of images and manipulative strategies, while demonstrating how Goebbels distorted reality when writing and rehearsing his speeches.”

The German cultural magazine ARD Artour highlights that Lang’s film “impressively combines archival footage with feature film sequences, not only for historical fidelity, which show the workings of Goebbels’ propaganda, and the feature film parts show the processes taking place behind them. The film is a masterful close-up of this terrifying system.”

Goebbels and the Führer will be released on April 24, 2025.