Boyero reviews ‘The Minister of Propaganda’: “I find the Hitler in the film less disgusting than the real Hitler” | Culture

This Friday the new film by German director Joachim Lang was released in cinemas, The propaganda ministera hybrid between documentary images and reenactment with actors that tells how Joseph Goebbels’ Nazi propaganda was created. Carlos Boyero dedicates his review of the week to this title: “This film doesn’t tell things that we didn’t already know, but it maintains interest,” summarizes the EL PAÍS critic about the 135 minutes of footage from the film. biopic starring Robert Stadlober, Fritz Karl, Franziska Weisz and Dominik Maringer.

The propaganda minister shows us Hitler and his dark gang, but focuses on Joseph Goebbels (Robert Stadlober), the dictator’s all-powerful propaganda minister, convinced, as Boyero points out in his critique, “that he could turn deception and lies into a art, in the armed arm of power, capable of grossly manipulating the head and spirit of what was at that time the most literate country in Europe.”

Regarding Goebbels’ boss, who in the fictional part is played by the actor Fritz Karl, the critic confesses: “The Hitler of the film seems less disgusting to me than the real Hitler.” Because, according to Boyero, the really creepy thing about The propaganda minister They are the real images that he shows from that disastrous time: “As always, they terrify.”

Read Carlos Boyero’s full review on The propaganda minister in EL PAÍS at this link: ‘The propaganda minister’: he lies like Goebbels, that much or something remains.