Alexander Sokurov’s Moloch, a Russian-German co-production takes place in the spring of 1942. Originally titled “The Mystery of the Mountain,” the film opens with an astonishing shot of a naked Eva Braun (Elena Rufanova) cavorting on the precipice of Hitler’s retreat in the Bavarian Alps. Hitler is portrayed by Leonid Mosgovoi and the focus of the characters over the course of a single day is not an attempt at psychology but rather a portrait of the people living in an elaborate theater of war, shot in part in the original fortress. There are no sounds of battle but an eerie beauty and surreal graininess to the film that shows that the only thing that Hitler has on his mind is winning: “If I win, everyone will worship me. But if I lose, even the lowest nobody will use me as a doormat.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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