 The film is known for the extensive use of montage to get its message across, in a style reminiscent of Sergei Eisensteins .It was ordered by Joseph Goebbels.The film begins with a montage of clips from the Weimar period, showing a series of clips of Labor and Communist rallies, interspersed with scenes of scantily clad cabaret girls, and then shots of the posters of the different Weimar era political parties.