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'Mein Kampf' film planned - Adolf Hitler as a young man in Vienna
"Mein Kampf," a version of George Tabori's grotesque theatrical work, has become the first film announced by the recently launched producer-distrib UFA Cinema. Urs Odermatt is directing the film, which focuses on Adolf Hitler as a young man in Vienna. The film will explore Hitler's life as he moves from the Austrian province to the big city with the dreams of becoming an artist. Tom Schilling plays Hitler, who, upon arriving in Vienna, moves into a hostel with two Jews who will have a lasting effect on the neurotic outsider's future.     [ variety :: 2008-04-22 :: Hitler Movies ]

Bruno Ganz: I had some doubts when I was offered the part of Hitler in Downfall
The producers sent me a recording, secretly taped in Finland in 1942, with Hitler's natural voice: not the screaming orator, but a soft voice. I'm sure that Hitler had Parkinson: there is newsreel of him giving medals to the Hitler Youth a few days before his death, and you can see his hand shaking. There was no strategy to say: "Let's show a new Hitler," just to show him as he was. Witnesses say he was kind to dogs, charming to women, nice to children - but when he was talking about military problems, one general says: "What about the 100,000 young German officers on the eastern front? They are going to die." Hitler replies: "But they are born to die."     [ scenta :: 2008-02-16 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Hitler: A Career (Hitler - eine Karriere)
Produced in 1977, Hitler: A Career, written and co-directed by historian Joachim Fest, caused quite a stir by all accounts when it premiered. Utilizing archival footage, Hitler: A Career immediately jumps into examining Hitler's rise to power. Cursory information is given about his upbringing, his WWI career and his vagabond days in Vienna. In Hitler: A Career, Fest argues that Hitler, far from being a raving madman was instead a scheming, incredibly adaptable (at first) and calculating politician, keen to exploit any weakness he saw in the political system and in the masses who, humiliated by the outcome of WWI, were waiting for a voice to speak for them.     [ dvdtalk :: 2007-11-10 ]

Top 10 onscreen Hitlers - Actors in the Fuhrer's jackboots
(1) Bruno Ganz: starred in the 2004 film Downfall which showed Adolf Hitler's last ten days in the underground Führerbunker. (2) Robert Carlyle: took the title role in the CBS mini-series, Hitler: The Rise of Evil. (3) Noah Taylor: In Max (2002) played a young art student Adolf Hitler. Playing the future Fuhrer as an angst-ridden outsider, frustrated by his lack of talent, brought accusations that the film was covering Hitler too sympathetically but also examined the question: what if his life could have taken another route? (6) Anthony Hopkins: portrayed Hitler in The Bunker (1981). Like Downfall, this depicted the end of Hitler's reign of terror.     [ timesonline :: 2007-07-21 :: Hitler Movies ]

Rare movie footage of Adolf Hitler hanging out discovered in Bayreuth
Rare film footage of Adolf Hitler hanging out with his buddies has been discovered in a Staten Island basement. A reel plucked from the wartime rubble of a German opera house shows Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler enjoying a Richard Wagner music festival before the start of WWII. The film, sent home by U.S. serviceman Walter Ladziak, was found 10 years ago. But it had never been viewed, until Ladziak's nephew Francis Cardamone sent it to PBS' "History Detectives," who have been working to prove its authenticity.     [ nydailynews :: 2007-06-26 :: Hitler Movies ]

Breaking taboos with The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler
Sensitivities are to face a severe test with the launch of a comedy film that turns Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler into a clown. The title, Mein Fuehrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler, gives a foretaste of the send-up, in which a Hitler, depressed in 1944 at losing his war, invites a Jew from a camp to live with him and coach his public speaking. Stills released show scenes of Hitler training his dog to do "Heil Hitler" salutes or lying in the bath playing with a toy warship. Down the decades, German cinema has mostly avoided Hitler. Two years ago, The Downfall offered a vision of the gloom of Hitler's last 10 days alive.     [ moldova :: 2006-12-28 :: Hitler Movies ]

New technology catches Adolf Hitler off guard in his home movies
New software that can read lips has helped make sense of Adolf Hitler's home movies, many of them made by Eva Braun at the Berghof. Hitler can be heard encouraging children towards a life in the military, criticising his closest henchmen and flirting with Eva Braun: "What are you filming an old man for? I should be filming you." The footage forms part of a documentary, Hitler's Private World: Revealed. It has languished in archives since the war after being found by the OSS in the Berghof cellars. The film shows very different Hitler at ease among his guests, he cracks jokes and talks about his love for cinema.     [ telegraph :: 2006-11-22 :: Hitler Movies ]

Hitler in Colour - Newly discovered WWII colour footage
Adolf Hitler stands before the Nazi faithful at Nuremberg, exhorting them to realise the destiny of the thousand-year Reich. A familiar image in black and white, this time the scene is played out in full colour, a legion of swastikas set on blood-red banners. But this is not a clip from the film Downfall - it is newly discovered, colour footage which renders him more real than ever before. One of the discoveries was film shot by Hitler's pilot, Hans Baur, unearthed at a Hamburg film library which was always assumed to possess only newsreels made after 1945. Hitler maybe was the most filmed person in the world up to his death.     [ guardian :: 2005-04-10 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Der Untergang - Downfall by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Downfall (Der Untergang) is an effective war drama, marred by an overabundance of characters and a certain tendency to emphasize the obvious aspects of the story. Bruno Ganz does an outstanding Hitler impersonation, going beyond the usual superficial mannerisms. Especially illuminating is the final interview with the real Traudl Junge (in the film played as a young woman by Alexandra Maria Lara), in which Hitler's secretary explains that claiming ignorance is no excuse for one's complicity. Synopsis: Nazi Germany is about to lose the war. In his underground bunker, Adolf Hitler grows out of touch with reality as he sees his dream of Deutschland über alles go kaput.     [ altfg :: 2005-03-20 :: Hitler Movies ]

Hitler of the Andes - Studying rumors that Hitler survived and escaped
When Russian troops entered Berlin in 1945 confusion surrounded the fate of Adolf Hitler. Witnesses were questioned and 2 charred bodies, said to be those of Hitler and Eva Braun, were discovered. But the Russians kept quiet about their findings, causing rumours that the Fuhrer had escaped. The hunt for Hitler continued after 1945. Reports reached J. Edgar Hoover, who send agents to South America. For 11 years FBI followed up sightings of Hitler in the Andes, where many high-ranking Nazis had found shelter under the Peron regime. Documentary explores the psychological reaction of the public that occurs when a dictator who has obsessed the imagination melts away.     [ ftvdb.bfi.org :: 2004-02-08 :: Hitler Movies ]

High Hitler - Documentary about Hitler's drug usage
The Fuhrer was a hypochondriac who misused laxatives and suffered for much of his life from stomach cramps and embarrassing flatulence. And that was only the start... By the time he committed suicide in his bunker in 1945, he was frail with tremors and a shuffling walk - a feeble condition that was kept secret from the world. The doctor whose job it was to maintain the Fuhrer in energetic health to pursue the Nazi project and its military ambitions was Dr Theodore Morell- plucked by Hitler from his practice in Berlin to be his personal physician in 1936.     [ thehistorychannel :: 2004-02-08 :: Hitler Movies ]

Inside Hitler's Bunker - Unsolved History
In early 1945, Adolf Hitler retreated to an underground bunker and never saw the light of day again. In this lair, he ate, slept, held military briefings and married Eva Braun. 1961-1989 the site was screened from Western eyes by the Berlin Wall. In the 70s, the GDR did a underground survey of the area that almost surely included inspecting Hitler's bunker. In 1990, workers clearing the former Hitler Chancellery area stumbled upon a part of the bunker complex. It turned out to be the 1,500-square-foot underground facility manned by the Chancellery's elite SS drivers. Watch as the team resurrects the past: digitally reconstructing the entire bunker.     [ discovery :: 2003-02-08 :: Hitler Movies ]

Hitler: The Comedy Years
Now, as a rule, the Nazis shouldn't be funny. But, in fact, comedy was quite a handy weapon for the Allies when they were trying to keep up the morale during the dark days of World War II. Since then, everyone from Monty Python to Spike Milligan to Freddie Starr has had a pop at the Third Reich with tongue firmly in cheek. "Hitler: The Comedy Years" would be easy to dismiss it as another talking-head-between-the-clips show, but it is at least aiming to ask a question: "Is there a place for such humour on the comedy circuit?" I think the answer is yes, as long as it doesn't cross the line and offend those who suffered under the Nazis.     [ remotecontrol :: 2002-02-08 :: Hitler Movies ]

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