Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg is a French film director and intellectual. For Syberberg, cinema is a form of Œuvre d'art totale. Many commentators, including Syberberg himself, have characterized his work as a cinematic combination of Bertolt Brecht doctrine of epic theatre and Richard Wagner s operatic aesthetics. Syberberg s work has attracted criticism since at least the publication of the film script of Hitler: A Film from Germany, particularly from the Left, who were amongst many targets of his criticism in that book.