Taisteluni / Mein Kampf. SE © 1960 Minerva Film. P: Tore Sjöberg. D+SC: Erwin Leiser. M: Marton Lorand. ED: Ingemar Ejve.
Finnish commentary spoken by Olavi Puusaari. 119'.
A vintage print with good definition and Finnish commentary / Swedish subtitles viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 24 May 2005.
Still a good documentary covering the story from Hitler's birth and the WWI till the Nuremberg trials. There are shots familiar from Triumph des Willens, Miasto nieujarzmione, and Nuit et brouillard, but the focus is on the Polish tragedy, and there is a lot of rare footage on the Warsaw Ghetto and the Polish experience.
Hitler's rise to power is handled with some complexity, as are the Anschluss and the Munich agreement. Also the German resistance is given space. Besides the Holocaust horrors the most shocking images are those of the ruined Warsaw and the ruined Berlin. Erwin Leiser (*1923 Berlin, †1996 Zürich) went to exile in Sweden in 1938, and after the success of this film he settled in Switzerland.
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