A Film by Peter Cohen
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of the Adolph Hitler and the Nazi
regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich
and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture.
From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside Hitler's bunker, this sensational
film shows how Adolph Hitler rose from being a failed artist to creating a world
of ponderous kitsch and horrifying terror.
Hitler worshipped ancient Rome and Greece, and dreamed of a new Golden Age
of classical art and monumental architecture, populated by beautiful, patriotic
Aryans. "Degenerate" artists and "inferior" races had no
place in his lurid fantasy. As this riveting film shows, the Nazis went from
banning the art of modernists like Picasso to forced euthanasia of the retarded
and sick, and finally to the persecution of homosexuals and the extermination
of Jews.
"Shocking! Includes all manner of Nazi spectacles." - J. Hoberman,
Village Voice
"A Masterpiece." - Variety
"**** Hypnotic & Horrifying!" - Jay Scott, Toronto Globe
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