Triumph Over Violence
Dec 31 1965
•2h 18m
•Documentary, History, War
Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world.
Cast
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Mikhail Romm
Narrator (voice)
Marlene Dietrich
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
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