![]() ![]() Could they have done something different?" "This is an actual discourse, an inner Jewish discourse about how the people should have reacted to Hitler in the regime. ![]() "That's maybe one of the aspects of the film that actually works, I think," Reininghaus says. This is an important storyline, says Moritz Reininghaus, editor of a Jewish paper here, Juedische Zeitung. Grunbaum's eldest son and wife want Grunbaum to kill Hitler, which he tries but cannot bring himself to do. The wife and four children of Adolf Grunbaum, the Jewish character, are also allowed out of concentration camps while Grunbaum is working with Hitler. "And I felt this need of creating a comedy and deconstruct, destruct the nazi figures to have a better understanding what made the German people follow Adolf Hitler."Ĭritics say the movie has an oddly split personality - slapstick, plus wrenching back story. "For me as a Jewish person who lives here in Berlin I needed a new approach," Levy says. Levy is Jewish and was born in Switzerland, where his mother lived after fleeing Hitler's Third Reich. But director and screenplay author Dani Levy says he was tired of documentaries that insist on demonizing Nazi leaders without asking how they came to power. One Jewish community leader here says Hitler does not deserve any mitigating circumstances or pity. The film suggests Hitler became a brutal dictator because he was mistreated as a child. And two, as a comedy, it does not go far enough. "It was not funny at all," said Claudios Seidel, who writes for the Sunday Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. The film portrays Hitler as an impotent man who plays with battleships in the bathtub and wets his bed. On opening night, at least one audience in Berlin chuckled when the acting coach - also named Adolf, last name Gruenbaum, middle name Israel - dressed Hitler in a track suit and made him do deep breathing exercises, and later, when Gruenbaum punches Hitler and knocks him out. Hitler is played by a beloved German comedian, and his Jewish coach by a well-respected actor. His propaganda minister organizes a major New Year's Day speech for the Fuehrer to rally the nation, and pulls a Jewish actor out of a concentration camp to coach Hitler back to his former glory. ![]() Hitler is depressed and unable to do anything. and Britain, it's been unusual - if not taboo - in Germany.Īs Mein Fuhrer, the Truly Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler begins, it's December, 1944. And while laughing at Hitler has been a successful form of comedy in the U.S. It's the first mainstream German film to make fun of the Nazi leader. Helge Schneider plays Adolf Hitler and Ulrich Muhe stars as his Jewish acting coach in a comedy that doesn't have critics laughing.Ī new German movie about Adolf Hitler opened this week. ![]()
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