Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler is a 1962 documentary directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen.[1]
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler | |
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Directed by | Louis Clyde Stoumen |
Written by | Louis Clyde Stoumen Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Produced by | Louis Clyde Stoumen Don Devlin |
Narrated by | Marlene Dietrich |
Edited by | Kenn Collins Richard Kaplan Mark Wortreich |
Music by | Ezra Laderman |
Distributed by | Capri Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date | 1962 |
Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Depicting through archival footage and photographs the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, using Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1794 version of Reynard the Fox as a parallel.[2]
Black Fox was originally scheduled to be released by Astor Pictures. After Astor's bankruptcy, Black Fox was released by the newly-formed Capri Films.[3]
It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1962.[4][5]