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Hitler Is Alive in ‘Borat’ style adaptation ‘Look Who’s Back’

Adolf Hitler is back in Germany? He is for a movie at least. Deadline reported on Wednesday that Constantin Film is going undercover for Look Who’s Back, its big-screen adaptation of Timur Vermes’ bestselling novel that imagines the return of Adolf Hitler to modern-day Germany. The twist is that Look Who’s Back will be filmed …

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TJFF 2012: ‘Hitler: The Comedy Years’ shows us why we still like to take the piss out of ol’ Adolf

Hitler: The Comedy Years Jacques Peretti UK, 2007 In 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain asked the BBC to gather their best comedy writers to create satirical caricatures to delegitimize and discompose Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler. With a diminutive stature, ludicrous hair and a literal comedic moustache, Hitler became instant ‘comedy gold’, and in Hitler: …

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Fantasia 2011: ‘One Hundred Years of Evil’ is a one joke film

One Hundred Years of Evil Directed by Erik Eger & Magnus Oliv Written by Oliver Blackburn, Erik Eger, Magnus Oliv and Joacim Starander Sweden, 80 min. Maximum capital gains have long-inspired television programmers of history television to favour propaganda championing the heroes and successes of their countries war-time achievements. Audiences clearly lost interest in self-congratulatory …

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