Hitler-Stalin: A Secret Relationship

S01E01 Hitler and Stalin, two men with an extraordinary destiny. The most terrible dictators of the 20th century. Everything opposed them, and yet... For decades, it was a well-kept secret. Behind the facade of their radical antagonism, the two men had more in common than we think. Though they never met, their complicity and their collaboration remain the black hole of modern history. What did they think of each other? How did they influence each other? Did they like each other? We have long ignored the "intimate" relationship between Hitler and Stalin, this mixture of mistrust and mutual fascination that made them implacable enemies before seeing them allied in a diplomatic farce. This film explores – with unpublished and colorized archives – the intimacy of the two monsters, their mutual fascination, their maneuvering to get closer, the marks of trust they exchanged and all the benefit they derived from the German-Soviet pact, before resuming their fight to the finish in June 1941.