Adolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention , but whereas Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.
A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Director:
Dennis Gansel
Stars:
Frederick Lau,
Max Riemelt,
Jennifer Ulrich
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Two down-on-their-luck guys decide to fake their own deaths and start over with new identities, only to find the people they're pretending to be are in even deeper trouble.
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Adolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention , but whereas Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.
When Sensenbrink encounters the unknown actor playing him self, he suggests that Bruno Ganz could have played the part. Bruno Ganz is famous for playing Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang (2004). See more »
Goofs
In his voiceover Hitler mentioned that he will write a second great book. However the book he is writing in the movie can't be his second, as he wrote and released not only two parts of his famous book "Mein Kampf" in 1924-1926 and a brochure "My way to the new raise" in 1927, but also a manuscript as a sequel to "Mein Kampf" in 1928, this however wasn't released while Hitler was alive as it might have revealed to many plans of Hitlers foreign policy. It was released after his death in the 1960s (unauthorized) and in the 2000s (authorized). See more »
'Er ist wieder da' is the original title of this absolute gem of a film from Germany and it is a comedy of sorts. The plot is that Adolf materialises in 2014 straight from 1945 and is totally befuddled as to what has happened to the rubble, the enemy aircraft and why the youth don't seem to recognise him or even worse they don't know how to do the Nazi salute.
We have the parallel story of Fabian Sawatzki who is a freelance film maker in need of a break and he sees 'Der Fuhrer' as a handy meal ticket back into TV. So begins the odyssey and to say this is inspired is a massive understatement.
This is a comedy and it is the most I have laughed in ages. The idea of juxtaposing Hitler's views as comedy material is genius. Now there is a big however here and that is his views are still pretty offensive even in this context.
The actor playing him is Oliver Masucci and he is an absolute show stealer. Some of this has been adlibbed on actual German streets and other situations and some of the reactions of the public are remarkable for all the right and wrong reasons. This is though an incredibly refreshing and novel film that I am so glad I got to see I saw it on Netflix and this justifies my monthly subscription for the next six months this will not be for everyone but if you are open to a new twist on bad things then you will hopefully enjoy this as much as I did.
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'Er ist wieder da' is the original title of this absolute gem of a film from Germany and it is a comedy of sorts. The plot is that Adolf materialises in 2014 straight from 1945 and is totally befuddled as to what has happened to the rubble, the enemy aircraft and why the youth don't seem to recognise him or even worse they don't know how to do the Nazi salute.
We have the parallel story of Fabian Sawatzki who is a freelance film maker in need of a break and he sees 'Der Fuhrer' as a handy meal ticket back into TV. So begins the odyssey and to say this is inspired is a massive understatement.
This is a comedy and it is the most I have laughed in ages. The idea of juxtaposing Hitler's views as comedy material is genius. Now there is a big however here and that is his views are still pretty offensive even in this context.
The actor playing him is Oliver Masucci and he is an absolute show stealer. Some of this has been adlibbed on actual German streets and other situations and some of the reactions of the public are remarkable for all the right and wrong reasons. This is though an incredibly refreshing and novel film that I am so glad I got to see I saw it on Netflix and this justifies my monthly subscription for the next six months this will not be for everyone but if you are open to a new twist on bad things then you will hopefully enjoy this as much as I did.