PapaSkin
01-15-2007, 10:30 AM
This isn't Skinhead related really - but I thought it was funny - so here it is: Why are we asking this question now? Because the Swiss-Jewish director Dani Levy's film Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler, which opened yesterday in Berlin, is the first attempt by a group of German film-makers to produce a comedy about Hitler. No German has dared to make a comedy film about the Nazi leader before. Are there any precedents? There are no German precedents for a comedy about Hitler. Most films that have attempted to satirise the Nazi leader in the past have been made by Americans. Dani Levy admits that his comedy is loosely based on Charlie Chaplin's 1940 classic The Great Dictator. Ernst Lubitsch made another comedy about Hitler called To Be Or Not To Be. Mel Brooks has also produced a musical film comedy, The Producers, about the Nazis. All these films have been shown in Germany and most of them have been well received - probably because they were made by foreigners and not Germans. It is doubtful whether a non-Jewish German could have got away with making a comedy film about Hitler even today. READ MORE...
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