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Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler

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With Adolf Hitler (Helge Schneider) in a deep depression, Goebbels brings in a Jewish actor (Ulrich Mühe) to lift the fuhrer out of his funk.

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Nora Lee Mandel Film-Forward.com Of anthropological interest, My Führer is like a curio exhibit in a Museum of German Comedy rather than a very amusing or profound entertainment for international audiences. Rated: 4/10 Dec 25, 2018 Full Review Andrea Chase Killer Movie Reviews . . . brilliantly funny Rated: 5/5 Jan 25, 2010 Full Review Kam Williams Sly Fox The cleverest Holocaust humor since Mel Brooks' 'Springtime for Hitler' skit in The Producers. Rated: 3.5./4 Jan 17, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Not funny or entertaining. Pretty terrible. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member It could have gone two ways, extremely hacky are humongously pretentious. It's the latter, all the hack jokes like "Hitler in the tub" and "Hitler doing Eva" are already shown in the trailer. All the jokes simply aren't funny. It can be considered to be a jewish director's pet project. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member After causing controversy with his previous project "Go for Zucker, writer and directory Dani Levy's latest project does the same. A comedy with Adolf Hitler! The story is happening in December 1944, when Germany has been almost destroyed by the bombardments and the Third Reich (1000 year) rule is almost over after a few years. I don't want to go too deep into the story and ruin your fun, but it is an amazing skill to "fiddle" with the history, and to have people who watch it to believe and laugh at the same time. This is not a movie which will offend one group or another! No! Everyone is just a human in this movie, with their own weaknesses and problems. You will laugh watching sometimes with some kind of understanding and sympathy one of the biggest villains of the humanity! I have to admit that director's skill was so refined that somehow under my skin I could feel even a subtle, subversive form of respect! It wasn't all due to the director, though. Adolf Hitler in this movie is a depressed man brilliantly acted by Helge Schneider. But you will see the other sides as well, because all his character had from social and political interaction in his life was somehow connected with the confrontation of paternal anger and penis envy! Other excellent performances of Hitler's companions Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth) and Adolf Grünbaum (Ulrich Mühe) should be remembered by the lovers of the exceptional acting. If you like unusual humour - don't miss this one... And for the end: Hitler: "Don't take the Holocaust thing so personally... It wasn't even really my idea." Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting movie. Not as funny as I thought it would be, but you can have some laughs and the idea of Hitler's character in the movie was great. Good ending. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review jesse o Clearly the movie has some good intentions, but I think the movie is so self-aware about how clever it is, when it's really not that clever that it's a complete turn off. It's not bad or anything, but it isn't as funny as it should be the dynamic of having a 'Jew' teach Hitler just never reaches its full comedic potential. And that's really all it boils down to, it's just a miscalculation. It's an average movie at best. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Comédia alemã sobre Hitler no último ano de guerra - preciso dizer mais? Destaque para as piadas sobre a burocracia nazista xD Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis With Adolf Hitler (Helge Schneider) in a deep depression, Goebbels brings in a Jewish actor (Ulrich Mühe) to lift the fuhrer out of his funk.
Director
Dani Levy
Producer
Stefan Arndt
Screenwriter
Dani Levy
Distributor
First Run
Production Co
X-Filme Creative Pool, Arte, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
German
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 14, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
May 7, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.3K
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
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