Speer und Er

Speer und Er
Written byHeinrich Breloer,
Horst Königstein [de]
Directed byHeinrich Breloer
StarringSebastian Koch
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
Production
Running time270 minutes
Original release
Release9 May (2005-05-09) –
12 May 2005 (2005-05-12)

Speer und Er (literally "Speer and He", released as Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect) is a three-part German docudrama starring Sebastian Koch as Albert Speer and Tobias Moretti as Adolf Hitler. It mixes historical film material with reconstructions, as well as interviews with three of Speer's children, Albert Speer Jr., Arnold Speer and Hilde Schramm.

The appended documentary confronts several interviewees including Wolf Jobst Siedler, Joachim Fest and Speer relatives with evidence that Speer knew in detail that some Nazi concentration camps functioned as killing factories, something he consistently maintained he could have found out but never actually knew.

Structure

Cast

The following list gives the name of each actor followed by the real historical figure played. It does not include the many people interviewed as themselves.

Sources

  • Fest, Joachim; Dring, Alexandra (2002). Speer: The Final Verdict. Translated by Osers, Ewald. Harcourt. ISBN 0-15-100556-7.
  • Sereny, Gitta (1995). Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-52915-4. Speer's life during the Third Reich can only be understood in the context of his strange relationship with Hitler... What is to be learned about these two men should make us ponder the nature of love and the perils of emotion.