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Thursday 08 October 2015
“The leader” comes back on us. In the book, in the cinema and quite real. After all, he has for the filming of “He’s back,” wanted in German lands genuine sympathizers. And found. No laughing matter – or does it
Humor can be a weapon. That one may laugh at Adolf Hitler, therefore, is beyond question. Ever since Charlie Chaplin as Anton Hynkel in Fantasy German raged to himself, it is clear that even or perhaps the worst dictator and mass murderer has the greatest potential for joke.
Hitler parodies there were so few since then. Successful – such as the Mel Brooks – and less successful – like that of Helge Schneider. The venture, the release “Guide” -Lachnummer beyond studio, script and screenplay to their people, so far, however – at least in length feature film – no one received. All it took was initially inspired by a novel by Timur Vermes conquered the bestseller lists by storm three years ago: “He’s back,” Adolf, the “leader”, the Gröfaz. Woke up in the middle of Berlin, nearly 70 years after the war, as if he had since then not westernized, but when he would have been in preserving slumber.
A reporter is aware of him and drags the supposed double, the doppelganger or simply the insane to watch TV. There, Hitler must indeed once do with so new achievements as the “internetwork” familiar, but already soon he makes a career – as perhaps not quite politically correct, but not least, therefore, the masses inspiring Comedian
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So far, so good. The fictional plot of the film follows at first in much of the literary source, before they visibly deviates towards the end of it also. The ensemble cast is peppered with stars who are so to speak, from the compartment and were allowed to keep their name in the film. Katja Riemann, who also twice Hitler’s mistress Eva Braun personified, playing television chef Katja Bellini. Christoph Maria Herbst, not only “Stromberg”, but also the voice of the audio book of “He’s back,” and Hitler’s likeness “Alfons Hatler” in the “Wixxer” movies, mimes their adversaries Christoph Sense Brink. Fabian Busch, in “Downfall” or as obersturmbannführer go, gives the reporter Fabian Sawatzki. And Michael Kessler, the Hitler of the “Switch” show, rises as the “leader” competitive comedian Michael Witzigmann in the ring.
would the strip limited to the scenes that take place after screenwriting Dramaturgy he was going through not just as Hitler swatter, but also as a media satire. Hape Kerkeling memories of film debut “No Pardon” be awake – with humor the Brand: Can you like, but you do not. But “He’s back,” do not want to remain in a unique movie mode. This is already clear, as the new comedy shooting star Adolf Hitler tossed around in the media. Still everything is scripted. But well-known faces such as the Talkmasters frank plasberg, Duo Infernale Joko and Klaas or Master Jörg Thadeusz give the interview a painting of credibility.
That alone, however, would the film not from the ranks of previous Hitler parodies lift. This requires even “Borat”. Not because he as the “leader” and mustache carrier is, but because “he’s back” in the style of the great Kazakhs of the so-called mockumentary principle operates: the commingling mock and documentary scenes, the dividing line between fiction and reality.
Selfies with Hitler
What this comes to light, is frightening. Many in Germany, so it gives the impression that is still waiting almost longingly at the return of the “leader”. And even if it is only in the form of an actor – no matter. Selfies with the alleged Hitler, arms, rising as if by magic in greeting, conversations in which dreamed in front of cameras the dream of new labor camps or the alleged deficiencies intelligence of Africans is explained – Images like these abound in the film. Only that total a whopping 380 hours for the material at the end only two hours long earnings were filmed, making some hope that it had to be longer waiting for the appropriate response to the concept here and there. Otherwise, actually provides a picture of a fairly deep brown abyss.
In this case, the “mockumentary” principle proves blessing and a curse. A scene about, in the modern era-Hitler apparently the NPD headquarters is visiting and dive along the head of the extreme right, acts, and they were real. Anyone who has read the novel, in which the episode is already told congruent, however, knows that it can only be a game scene. Even those who have on the screen that the former NPD chairman appears surnamed apple and not, as in the movie, “pear” was called, the jokes come fast on the ropes. Many other moviegoers but are fiction and reality in places like this finally can no longer be parted. That may be because the artistic standards. For the significance of the film, however, it is counterproductive.
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All the more productive for the main character. Anyway, the person who’s in it. Although Oliver Masucci has quite quite a few movie experiences. But above all, he works as a performer at the Vienna Burgtheater. That he is not omnipresent to the German public, and thus – unlike, say, Christoph Maria Herbst – was harder to unmask, predestined him for the role of the dictator. But not only that, but most of all his acting brilliance makes it a very famous Adolf Hitler – from the point of view is understood
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Even the director of the strip, David Wnendt, garnered a lot of praise for his previous films. With “warrior”, he created in 2011 an insightful neo-Nazi trial. With “wetlands” succeeded a skillful screen adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s “disgust-novel”, which became one of the most successful strip of the year-2013. Courage can not be denied the 38-year-old safe. Even a fortiori in the present case of “He’s back”.
However, if you had time quite Wnendt also wanted a shot high spirits in the one direction or another. Had the film unique and less “Borat”, he would be much more clear statement as slapstick. Had he, however, elsewhere still biting and less on political correctness – namely the filmmakers – considered, he was much more satire than comedy. As Sawatzki Hitler shoots, again celebrates the resurrection once. No, you can not get rid of him, declares the “leader” the befuddled reporter pregnant with meaning. And the audience is thinking: Typically German. Or were indeed but the brown Vollpfosten that you’ve seen before?
Source: n-tv.de
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