Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.
Editing
Juxtaposition of Hitler's rallies and Churchill's radio addresses is electric.
Production
Rare footage of pre-war Churchill that rewrites his 'born ready' myth.
Director
David Korn-Brzoza
Stéphane Freiss
Self - Narrator (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Neville Chamberlain
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Korn-Brzoza spent three years negotiating with 14 different national archives; the colorized Western Desert footage appears here for the first time.
The film's structure deliberately mirrors Hitler's own 'heroic' narrative arc—rise, struggle, triumph, collapse—to subvert it from within, a formal choice that sparked debate at 2017 Berlinale.
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