Speer und Er

2005 German TV miniseries

Speer und Er
Written by	Heinrich Breloer, Horst Königstein [de]
Directed by	Heinrich Breloer
Starring	Sebastian Koch
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
Production
Running time	270 minutes
Original release
Release	2005 (2005)

Speer und Er (literally "Speer and He", released as Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect) is a three-part German docudrama starring Sebastian Koch as Albert Speer and Tobias Moretti as Adolf Hitler. It mixes historical film material with reconstructions, as well as interviews with three of Speer's children, Albert Speer Jr., Arnold Speer and Hilde Schramm.

The appended documentary confronts several interviewees including Wolf Jobst Siedler, Joachim Fest and Speer relatives with evidence that Speer knew in detail that some Nazi concentration camps functioned as killing factories, something he consistently maintained he could have found out but never actually knew.

Structure

Part 1: Germania – The Delusion
Part 2: Nuremberg – The Trial
Part 3: Spandau – The Punishment
Documentary

Cast

The following list gives the name of each actor followed by the real historical figure played. It does not include the many people interviewed as themselves.

Sebastian Koch: Albert Speer
Tobias Moretti: Adolf Hitler
Dagmar Manzel: Gretel Speer
Eva Haßmann: Eva Braun
Peter Rühring: Karl Dönitz
André Hennicke: Rudolf Hess
Michael Gwisdek: Erich Raeder
Elert Bode: Konstantin von Neurath
Andreas Conrad: Hans Frank
Susanne Schäfer [de]: Annemarie Kempf
Axel Milberg: Rudolf Wolters
Erika Marozsan: Marion Riesser
Wilfried Hochholdinger: Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels
Hannes Jaenicke: Major Airey Neave
August Zirner: Dr. Gustave M. Gilbert
Markus Boysen: Baldur von Schirach
Milena Dreißig: Hilde Schramm
Peter Schneider: Albert Speer Jr.
Goetz Argus: Gerhard Degenkolb
Joachim Bissmeier: Dr. Hans Flächsner
Rose-Lise Bonin: Margarete Speer
Gottfried Breitfuss: Martin Bormann
Götz Burger: Walther Funk
Karlheinz Ciba: Gauleiter des Rheinlands
Edmund Dehn: Robert H. Jackson
Franz Dinda: Arnold Speer
Sky du Mont: John Kenneth Galbraith
Conrad F. Geier: Dr. Fritz Todt
Heinz Grunschel: Heinrich Hoffmann
Hannes Hellmann: Hermann Göring
Alfred Herms: Julius Schulte-Frohlinde
Heinz Kloss: Friedrich Hetzelt
Michael Maertens: Dr. Karl Brandt
Florian Martens: Heinrich Himmler
Hubert Mulzer: Walter Model
Christian Nickel: Ernst Speer
Michael Pas: Paul Ludwig Troost
Patrick Elias: Richard Sonnenfeldt
Oliver Stern: Fritz Sauckel
Sven Walser: Hans Kammler
Franz Xaver Zach: Friedrich Tamms
Murad Yazigarov: Roman Rudenko
Peter Bishop: English Director Spandau Prison

Sources

Fest, Joachim; Dring, Alexandra (2002). Speer: The Final Verdict. Translated by Osers, Ewald. Harcourt. ISBN 0-15-100556-7.
Sereny, Gitta (1995). Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-52915-4. Speer's life during the Third Reich can only be understood in the context of his strange relationship with Hitler... What is to be learned about these two men should make us ponder the nature of love and the perils of emotion.