Underplayed Gems

Look Who's Back (2015)

Look Who's Back poster
Original title
Er ist wieder da
Directed by
David Wnendt
Genre
comedy film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 56m
Rated
14
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 1,940 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Adolf Hitler wakes up in modern Germany and tries to fit in with contemporary society. The film mixes unscripted scenes of him talking to real people with a fictional storyline.

satiricalunsettlingcerebraldarkly comicabsurdawkwardthought-provokingunpredictable

What happens

Look Who's Back (German: Er ist wieder da, pronounced [ˈeːɐ̯ ʔɪst ˈviːdɐ daː]; transl. "He's back again") is a 2015 German satirical black comedy film directed by David Wnendt and based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Timur Vermes. It is a work of political satire about former Führer Adolf Hitler waking up in the modern era, and his attempts to reintegrate with modern German society and politics. The film features unscripted vignettes of Oliver Masucci as Adolf Hitler interacting with ordinary Germans, interspersed with scripted storyline sequences. It was listed as one of eight films that could have been the German submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not selected. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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