Syderbergs exuberant attempt to approach the figure Hitler via the irrational layers of the soul of the German people. In a form of composition that is close to musical forms, he designs a network of changing perspectives and forms of presentation larded with quotations from literature, the arts, and film. Syderberg positve mythology radically breaks the laws of narrative or rationally arguing cinema. Conceived as a monumental synthesis of arts his film polemicizes against the decay of modern culture and the "cultural hell" of the ferderal republic of Germany, which presented as the continuation od fascist corruption. The inventive use of montage proves highly artistic skills, but numerous cross-references and quotes make it difficult to find access to this very intellectual film which is as rich as controversial.

Source: Lexikon des Internationalen Films. Ausgabe 2001. CD-ROM. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rororo, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. 2000.