The Followers

Overview

Combining archival footage with dramatized episodes based on real accounts, this film examines everyday life in Nazi Germany through the experiences of ordinary citizens. Directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz and Erwin Leiser, it traces how conformity, opportunism, fear, and routine compromise drew “ordinary” men and women into complicity with the regime, revealing the banality of evil at work in daily life.

Cast

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Gottfried John

Brocke

Karin Baal

Elisabeth Kurz

Friedrich W. Bauschulte

Horst Bollmann

Strobel

Felix von Manteuffel

Lisi Mangold

Therese Lohner

Ellen Kurz

Edith Teichmann

Regina Lemnitz