Look Who's Back (film)
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| Directed by | David Wnendt |
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Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes |
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| Music by | Enis Rotthoff |
| Cinematography | Hanno Lentz |
| Edited by | Hans Funck |
| Distributed by | Constantin Film |
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116 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Budget | €2,956,960 ($3.3 million) |
| Box office | $25.5 million |
Look Who's Back (German: Er ist wieder da, pronounced [ʔeːɐ̯ ʔɪst ˈviːdɐ daː]; translation: "He's back") is a 2015 German comedy film directed by David Wnendt, based on the bestsellingsatirical novel of the same name about Adolf Hitler by Timur Vermes. The film features unscripted vignettes of Oliver Masucci as Hitler interacting with ordinary Germans while in character, interspersed with scripted storyline sequences. It was listed as one of eight films that could be the German submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not selected.
Adolf Hitler (Oliver Masucci) wakes up in present-day Berlin, in a park where his former wartime bunker once stood, and with no memory of anything that happened after 1945. He is disoriented and interprets modern situations and things from a Nazi perspective. Everyone he meets assumes he is an actor impersonating Hitler. He arrives at a newspaper kiosk and begins to read about modern day issues in Germany. Through these newspapers he discovers a completely different ideology from the country he left and not an ideology agreeable to his taste.
Hitler next meets Fabian Sawatzki (Fabian Busch), of the television station MyTV, who had been coincidentally filming a documentary about the children of Berlin in the park where Hitler awoke. Sawatzki proposes to use Hitler in a television programme. An idea for an animal-centred show ends suddenly when Hitler shoots a dog with a concealed pistol. Hitler suggests that the subject of the film be politics. The two set out on a journey to different places in Germany, with Hitler talking to the people being filmed, learning about their issues, and promising to help. Hitler finds himself disillusioned with the German political spectrum. He disparages the ruling CDU as "Bavarian social drinkers", and still bears a strong grudge against the SPD as the party of his old enemies Friedrich Ebert, Paul Lobe, and Otto Wels. The only party Hitler mostly agrees with is the Green party as their program is similar to his Blut und Boden campaign. In the meantime, Hitler becomes a street sketch artist to earn money for the programme.
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