🎬 Documentary

Hitler's Big Fear: The Trial Against Degenerate Art

"When art becomes a threat, who decides what survives?"

2026 1h 40m Dir. Simona Risi

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In 1937, the Nazi regime launched its war on modernity, branding artists like Picasso, Chagall, Van Gogh, and Matisse as “degenerate”. Their works were banned, destroyed, or mocked in grotesque exhibitions, while Aryan ideals were glorified in state-sponsored shows. Framed by a major new exhibition at the Musée Picasso in Paris, the documentary revisits this ideological assault through rare footage, suppressed artworks, and the voices of curators and survivors. It broadens its scope to music, literature, and architecture, exposing how the Reich targeted all forms of dissenting expression. A timely meditation on repression, resistance, and the enduring fight for creative freedom.

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Year
2026
Runtime
1h 40m
Genre
Documentary
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Language
EN
🎭 Documentary 🎬 Simona Risi
art history modernism rise of nazism

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