Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
1962 film
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler is a 1962 documentary directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen.[1]
Directed byLouis Clyde Stoumen
Written byLouis Clyde Stoumen
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Produced byLouis Clyde Stoumen
Don Devlin
Don Devlin
Narrated byMarlene Dietrich
| Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler | |
|---|---|
DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Louis Clyde Stoumen |
| Written by | Louis Clyde Stoumen Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
| Produced by | Louis Clyde Stoumen Don Devlin |
| Narrated by | Marlene Dietrich |
| Edited by | Kenn Collins Richard Kaplan Mark Wortreich |
| Music by | Ezra Laderman |
| Distributed by | Capri Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
|
Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Summary
Depicting through archival footage and photographs the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, using Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1794 version of Reynard the Fox as a parallel.[2]
Release
Black Fox was originally scheduled to be released by Astor Pictures. After Astor's bankruptcy, Black Fox was released by the newly-formed Capri Films.[3]
Accolades
It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1962.[4][5]
See also
- List of American films of 1962
- Le Roman de Renard - Ladislas Starevich's 1930 puppet-animated feature film version of Goethe's tale