Director: Joachim Lang
Goebbels and the Führer is a German historical drama that goes inside the machinery of Nazi propaganda, tracing how one man's words and images were built to manufacture consent for war and genocide.
What is Goebbels and the Führer about?
Set in the years leading up to and during the Second World War, the film follows Joseph Goebbels as he directs Germany's propaganda apparatus on Adolf Hitler's behalf, shaping newspapers, radio, and film to build public backing for the regime's escalating aims. The story moves through the offices, rallies, and private meetings where messaging decisions were made, showing the calculated process behind mass persuasion rather than dramatizing the battlefield itself. Personal and political threads intertwine as the film traces the widening gap between the propaganda machine's public image and the atrocities it was built to justify.
Cast & crew
Robert Stadlober takes on the role of Goebbels, working opposite Fritz Karl as Hitler, with Franziska Weisz, Sascha Göpel, Katia Fellin, Raphaela Möst, Emanuel Fellmer, and Sebastian Thiers rounding out a cast of officials, family members, and functionaries who populate the regime's inner circle. The ensemble is built to render bureaucratic decision-making as intimately as any battlefield scene.
Context & significance
Directed by Joachim Lang, the film is part of a body of German-language cinema that examines the Nazi era from within its own institutions rather than through an outside observer, using archival research to reconstruct how propaganda decisions were actually made. Rather than framing Goebbels as a distant villain, the film stays close to the day-to-day machinery of persuasion — memos, meetings, edits — to show how systematic and deliberate the construction of public opinion was, treating the period as historical record rather than spectacle.
Where & how to watch
K-Time streams the film with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making this piece of European historical cinema accessible in Farsi for viewers who want the context and language support. Reading this page requires no account; only starting playback calls for a free K-Time login, and the platform's Farsi-first design is built with the diaspora audience in mind.