Synopsis
Ordinary Fascism (1965) is a Soviet documentary directed by Mikhail Romm that you can watch online on iFILM. In 129 minutes, Romm dissects the Nazi regime — not through re-enactment, but through its own records and images.
The raw material here is remarkable: seized reels from Goebbels' propaganda ministry, Hitler's private photo archive, and hundreds of snapshots found on SS soldiers. Romm cuts this footage without grand commentary — the Nazi machinery indicts itself. Rally rituals stripped of their mystique sit next to portraits that double as evidence.
Released in the USSR for the 20th anniversary of Victory Day, the film still carries Romm's own narration. Not a detached archival voice — a man who lived through that era and spent years trying to understand what made it possible. It ranks among the most forensic accounts of how fascism assembled itself from ordinary human material. Stream Ordinary Fascism (1965) online on iFILM.
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