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SYNOPSIS
"The Empty Mirror," by writer/director Barry J. Hershey, is a phantasmagoric journey
through the looking glass of history into the darkest recesses of the mind of Adolf
Hitler.
Detached from historical time, filmmaker Hershey's fantasy takes us into a dreamlike
subterranean environment in which Adolf Hitler confronts the demons of his own psyche.
As he dictates his memoirs, Hitler encounters apparitions of his fiendish confidant,
Joseph Goebbels; his enigmatic mistress, Eva Braun; the mastermind of his military
campaigns, Hermann Goehring; Jewish psychologist, Sigmund Freud; and the mysterious
Woman In Black. (more below)
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Through haunting images, Hitler's stream-of-consciousness soliloquies
and his exchanges with his phantom guests, the audience receives a terrifying primer
on genius and psychosis, domination and destruction. The main action unfolds amidst a
streaming flow of archival footage intercut with images from Leni Riefenstahl's
masterpiece of Nazi propaganda, "Triumph Of The Will," and private home movies shot
by Hitler's lover, Eva Braun.
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