Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler
My Führer – The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler
It is December 25, 1944, and Berlin lies in ruin and rubble. The Total War appears to be totally lost. Reich Propaganda Minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels realizes that the country needs to be jolted into action, and he already has an idea about how to do it. The Führer is to hold a flaming New Year's address in front of a fake cardboard image of undamaged Berlin which will be spread throughout the land by the weekly newsreel cameras in order to remobilize the masses for the war. There is only one problem: Adolf Hitler is only a shadow of his former "greatness"; demoralized and depressed, he has holed up in his office, completely avoiding the public. The only man who can help him now is the Jewish actor Adolf Grünbaum, who once taught Hitler how to act when he was beginning his political career. Goebbels has Grünbaum and his family released from Sachsenhausen concentration camp. But time is of the essence: in five days Hitler has to be in top form...
In this film Dani Levy takes up the tradition – for the first time in Germany – of (tragi-)comedies about the Hitler period: "I have tried to write like Karl May, who invented 'his' world of Indians and 'his' rabian world. The conditions and the story that are described in 'My Führer' are based on knowledge of those times, but freely invented. Why? Because for me the fantasy, the fable independent of any facts, might just be nearer to the truth. Or in other words: I do not want to accord this cynical, psychically desolate person the honour of a realistic depiction."
Source: 57. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Adolf Hitler
- Prof. Adolf Grünbaum
- Dr. Joseph Goebbels
- Elsa Grünbaum
- Albert Speer
- Heinrich Himmler
- Obergruppenführer Rattenhuber
- Martin Borman
- SS-Wachmann Moltke
- Erich Kempka
Production company
Producer
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Script supervisor
Screenplay
Director of photography
Assistant camera
2nd Camera unit
Optical effects
Titles / Opticals
Lighting design
Key grip
Prop master
Make-up artist
Costume design
Costumes
Editing
Sound
Audio mixing
Special effects
Casting
Music
Cast
- Adolf Hitler
- Prof. Adolf Grünbaum
- Dr. Joseph Goebbels
- Elsa Grünbaum
- Albert Speer
- Heinrich Himmler
- Obergruppenführer Rattenhuber
- Martin Borman
- SS-Wachmann Moltke
- Erich Kempka
- Rottenführer Puffke
- Kammerdiener Heinz Linge
- KZ-Kommandant Banner
- Dr. Morell
- Kurt Gerheim
- Eva Braun
- Sekretärin
- Maskenbildnerin Rosemarie Riefenstahl
- Kempkas Geliebte(r)
- Judith Grünbaum
- UFA Schauspielerin
Production company
in co-production with
Producer
Producer (TV)
Line producer
Unit production manager
Post-production
Original distributor
Shoot
- Berlin
FSK-Prüfung: 14.12.2006, 108516, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 09.01.2007, Essen, Lichtburg;
Kinostart (DE): 11.01.2007;
TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 23.04.2009, Arte
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler
- Weiterer Titel (DE) Mein Führer
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung: 14.12.2006, 108516, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 09.01.2007, Essen, Lichtburg;
Kinostart (DE): 11.01.2007;
TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 23.04.2009, Arte
Awards
- Bester Darsteller
- Prädikat: wertvoll