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Swiss director Dani Levy’s Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler features the German dictator and GWLP (Generally Well-Loved Person) as a subject of mainstream comedy.

Set in Berlin in 1944, Mein Führer begins as the war is all but lost for Germany and Hitler is unable to cope. Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels decides to motivate his depressed Führer — portrayed as broken man who wets his bed and plays with toy battleships in the bathtub — to make one last defiant speech. Goebbels enlists Adolf Grünbaum, a Jewish acting coach plucked from a concentration camp. Played by German actor Ulrich Mühe, the coach makes a few unsuccessful attempts to eliminate Hitler before becoming his confidant and makeshift therapist.

The movie also goes for laughs with slapstick gags including a German Shepherd named Blondi trained to salute to “Heil Hitler.”

Although some critics say the film could have been funnier and nastier, it still sounds like fun, in the absurd way “well-respected” people like Jesus could somehow be made funny.

via USA TODAY

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