Nearly 75 years after the end of World War II, is Germany prepared to embrace a big-screen comedy about Adolf Hitler? More specifically, will German audiences come out for Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, a Nazi satire featuring Waititi himself in the role of an imaginary, goofy and goose-stepping Führer?
Making jokes about the most horrific period in German history — in a country still haunted by its past — can be a tricky business. My Führer, a 2007 satire from the Jewish-Swiss director Dani Levy — which imagines Hitler getting public speaking lessons from a Jewish actor — was lacerated ...
Making jokes about the most horrific period in German history — in a country still haunted by its past — can be a tricky business. My Führer, a 2007 satire from the Jewish-Swiss director Dani Levy — which imagines Hitler getting public speaking lessons from a Jewish actor — was lacerated ...
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