Posted on 03/07/2006 1:09:51 AM PST by RWR8189
An alarming sight in Berlin: The city's central "Lustgarten" square transformed into a Nazi rallying ground complete with giant swastika banners and a ranting Führer. But Germany's first comedy film about Hitler was bound to break taboos.
Tourists passing in sightseeing buses stared open-mouthed at the scene in central Berlin on Monday: huge red banners bearing the Nazi swastika fluttering in the winter sun outside the city's cathedral, Wehrmacht soldiers in their steel helmets standing guard between the imposing pillars of the Old Museum and a crowd of hundreds cheering their Führer with enthusiastic Hitler salutes and chants of "Sieg Heil!"
But a second glance caught the film crew, catering buses and cinema equipment and quickly dispelled any concern that the Fourth Reich had quietly dawned in Germany over the weekend. Still, the sight was unusual enough to draw a crowd of onlookers and it marked a bold first in the history of German cinema since World War II -- a comedy about Hitler.
"Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler" by Swiss director Dani Levy, who is Jewish, takes a tongue-in-cheek look at Hitler's final days and parodies both the dictator and recent portrayals of him such as the critically-acclaimed 2004 film "Der Untergang" ("The Downfall"), which itself broke a taboo by attempting to showing the Nazi leader's human side.
Levy has said he wants the film to be an "anti-signal" against films which he believes have put Hitler on too much of a pedestal. The film is being backed with €450,000 of public money from film development firm Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg which describes the plot as follows: "Hitler lives and tells the story of what he was really like -- a weakling who only made it to the top with the help of the Jew Grünbaum."
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
One can never be too sure.
This time, Europe's fascists will be screaming "Allahu Akbar!" after giving the sieg heil.
Now I remember the Left`s biggest hysterics about the first film, because it showed Hitler eating noodles, I kid you not.
The Left ARE noodles.
That was lamer than FDR's legs.
Oooh...too soon?
I can't imagine why anyone thinks they need to "answer" that film. "Der Untergang" is the strongest anti-Nazi film I can imagine.
Das meinst du nicht im Ernst oder?
The uniforms look too green.
Es gab nie alles, das über hitler lustig ist
Yes, much more green than in the black and white photos we have all seen...
Personally I do not have any problems with making funny movies about Hitler. He was upvalued as some "master" of the dark and devil for much too long. It is part of a pseudo-religion that was made out of the Holocaust and the Nazis for political reasons. Without this pervert cult, the claim that all Germans have somehow a collective guilt, can not be maintained. Do not get me wrong - I do not deny the nameless crimes of the nazis, but I do deny that people that are born 50 or 60 years after 1945 shall be responsible for it.
"...but I do deny that people that are born 50 or 60 years after 1945 shall be responsible for it"
But that is the plan, a like portion of which is to make Americans responsible for slavery centuries after the muslims sold their people to the traders so they could eat.
Words are the weapons used to destroy Nations defenseless without The Word.
Pro 11:11 "By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked."
I was explaining the aspect of these two movies, as this one was intended to be a dueling version against an earlier movie.
Since they are dueling approaches I am siding with the non-comedic version of Hitler.
Try to keep up to speed so I don't have to needlessly waste 20 heartbeats explaining it to you.
Thank you.
It will be difficult to make a "comedy" about hitler unless your name is Mel Brooks. JMO
The Germans had, and used, color film. Most of the photos in Signal were in black and white, but a few were in color. Here's a link to a few (scroll down to the color photos of the Afrika Korps). Of course, those are the desert uniforms, not the Feldgrau or SS. For those you would need to look through the print versions of the magazine.
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