Word: hitlering
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...years, Germany has shied away from presenting Adolf Hitler as the main character in a movie. Since Hitler is a monstrous presence in the national memory, realistic portrayals on the big screen were considered bad taste - and sympathetic portrayals were unthinkable. Other countries made big-budget World War II epics with Hollywood stars such as Alec Guinness and Anthony Hopkins playing Hitler, but the last German-language film about Hitler and his subordinates, The Last Act, was produced in 1955 - and its Hitler was a raving lunatic. Now a new German film about Hitler's final days in the bunker...
...without the gore can try The Animated Passion, with seven sing-along hymns, a blue-eyed Jesus enduring most of his pain off-camera, and a stodgy illustrative style. The less pious will turn to a South Park DVD, The Passion of the Jew, with Cartman as a neo--Hitler youth and Gibson as a raving loony. It's funny-angry, but for the gang's sturdiest liturgical statement, go to Season 4's Do the Handicapped Go to Hell? and its sequel, Probably. --By Richard Corliss
...greatly misguided schemes is to pine for liberal giants like Willy Brandt, the focal figure of Michael Frayn?s play ?Democracy,? which has been running in London for nearly a year. Brandt, who left Germany for Norway in 1933 and helped resistance leaders in the fruitless attempts to overthrow Hitler, gave a human face to a national long tainted by Nazism. Calling for ?a fatherland of love and justice? and pursuing the doctrine of detente with the Soviet bloc - Ostpolitik - Brandt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Three years later he was brought down, as other leaders have been...
...political imbecile bereft of even elementary morality as a human being ... Bush is a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade." NORTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON, in a statement attacking U.S. President George W. Bush who had branded North Korean leader Kim Jong Il a "tyrant" in a recent speech...
...Philip Roth imagines it with eery clarity in The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 400 pages), out Oct. 5, an all too plausible work of counter-history in which Roth re-creates his New Jersey childhood in Lindbergh's America. On taking office, Lindbergh promptly cozies up to Hitler, making good on his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of World War II, then goes on to pass the (entirely fictional) Homestead Act of 1942, which systematically relocates Jewish families to remote rural towns. Bit by bit, never shrill, never frothing, Roth shows us how easily the U.S. could...