I just finished watching this strange movie, which I assumed would be all humor, based on the premise of... wait for it... Adolf Hitler! I know, humor is not the usual sentiment associated with the name. Naturally, after getting to know the premise of the movie, I decided to delve into it. I caught it on Netflix, which is streaming the movie.
The basic premise of the movie is simple. Adolf Hitler, through some cosmic coincidence, is transported across time, right before he dies, and is cast into the present world (~2014). The movie initially is boardy humor, as the Führer struggles to understand the changed world. A struggling TV free lancer, by the name of Sawatski, meets Hitler and joins in with him, thinking that this is a character he is portraying. Sawatski realizes that this crazy Hitler impersonator could be his ticket to greatness, and follows him around, filming his every move. The movie subsequently takes on the mockumentary style, and actual people, men on the street, end up on the reel. I was a bit surprised by the fact that many people, so unhesitatingly, comment on the state of the world, of Germany, of their own "radical" beliefs in the politics of xenophobia and narrow nationalism.
Hitler soon finds that he is a big hit with the social media, and starts reigning the TV screens as...
