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The Thirty-Second Sign of the Apocalypse?
Germans. With a sense of humor. About Hitler:
"Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler" by Swiss director Dani Levy, who is Jewish, takes a tongue-in-cheek look at Hitler's final days and parodies both the dictator and recent portrayals of him such as the critically-acclaimed 2004 film "Der Untergang" ("The Downfall"), which itself broke a taboo by attempting to showing the Nazi leader's human side.
Most interesting of all to me was the pictures of giant swastika banners in Berlin. It was my understanding such things were completely banned with the strict, efficient, and humorless enforcement for which German beauracrats* are justly famous. I remember reading years ago it was impossible to purchase, for example, model kits of German WWII airplanes with swastika decals.
It would appear this has changed somehow.
At any rate, here's to hoping the project turns out well. Every time I see something like this it makes me smile and think, "you lost, you evil bastard!"
Well swastikas are still banned over here in Germany, but there are exceptions possible. In this case the film crew managed to get a special exception from the state to be allowed the display.
(As it also states in the article you link ;-)
Posted by: fm on March 14, 2006 12:41 PM