Rike Schmid

A young boy is separated from his exiled mother, lives among slaves, and is later reunited with her as they devise to make him Nero, Emperor of Rome.

Narrated by Udo Kier, Rüdiger Suchsland's film suggests that the Third Reich was an immersive movie starring the German nation created by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. "Hitler’s Hollywood" collages films from the more than 1000 features the Nazis produced from 1933-1945: musicals, melodramas, romances, war films – and when the real war got insanely lavish, over-the-top fantasies.