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My Fhrer The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler
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Wikipedia article
'My Fhrer The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler' is a 2007 German comedy-drama film directed by Dani Levy.
The setting is World War II, around New Year's of 1944. The film tells the story of Adolf Hitler and his preparation for a big New Year's speech. Hitler is too depressed to speak, so a Jewish acting coach is called in to tutor him.
The premiere was held on 9 January 2007 in Essen. Wide German release followed on 11 January and Swiss and Austrian releases on 18 and 19 January, respectively. It was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival.
Plot
Professor Adolf Grnbaum, a Jewish renowned actor, introduces the story as the narrator. He wants to tell people his story, which he says may never appear in a history book.
Grnbaum is imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp with his wife and four children. In the meantime, Adolf Hitler lives in the New Reich Chancellery in bombed-out Berlin. The German propaganda machine around Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels is preparing a mass event in Berlin's Lustgarten for New Year's Day 1944 to give the war-weary Germans new motivation. Hitler however himself is weak and confused. Grnbaum is thus released from the concentration camp to get Hitler back in shape, and to motivate him and support him as a teacher. After an initial rejection, Hitler increasingly trusts his mentor and reveals personal feelings and childhood memories to him. Grnbaum is engaged in internal conflict and repeatedly considers killing Hitler; paradoxically, he even thwarted an attempted murder of Hitler and reminded his wife that the Fhrer was also a victim of his childhood.
During Grnbaum's meetings with Hitler, the two are observed and wiretapped by numerous leaders. Together with the Minister of the Interior and Reichsfhrer SS Heinrich Himmler, Goebbels plans an assassination attempt on Hitler, which is to take place during the New Year's address, as part of a "staged reality". A bomb is to be placed under Hitler's lectern and the blame placed on Grnbaum, who is now close to Hitler. This attack is intended to strengthen the hatred of the Jews in the German people and thus contribute to the success of the war.
On the day of the speech, Hitler becomes so hoarse that he loses his voice. On Hitler's route through Berlin from the Reich Chancellery to the Lustgarten, destroyed buildings are reconstructed using panel-shaped wooden structures, so as to portray an undamaged Berlin in the film Goebbels has planned for the occasion. Grnbaum, standing under the podium, is coerced into giving the speech while Hitler ad-libs and gesticulates. Grnbaum deviates from the planned text and begins mocking Hitler before he is shot, while Hitler flees the lectern just before the bomb explodes.
Fatally injured, Grnbaum predicts that the war will soon be over and that the Fhrer will eventually take his own life. He notes that in a hundred years, actors will still be writing about Hitler and actors will portray him, because people will want to understand the atrocities of the Nazi regime.
Cast
* Helge Schneider as Adolf Hitler
* Ulrich Mhe as Adolf Grnbaum
* Sylvester Groth as Joseph Goebbels
* Adriana Altaras as Elsa Grnbaum
* Stefan Kurt as Albert Speer
* Ulrich Noethen as Heinrich Himmler
* Lambert Hamel as Obergruppenfhrer Rattenhuber
* Udo Kroschwald as Martin Bormann
* Torsten Michaelis as SS-Wachmann Moltke
* Axel Werner as Erich Kempka
References
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