Goebbels and patient

Movie
Original title	Goebbels and patient
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2002
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Kai Wessel
script	Peter Steinbach
production	Dietrich Mack Bettina Ricklefs
music	Ralf Wienrich
camera	Rudolf Blaháček
cut	Bernd Lorbiecki
occupation
Ulrich Mühe : Goebbels or patiently Dagmar Manzel : Grete Zipfel Eva Mattes : Magda Goebbels Götz Otto : Branding iron Dieter Pfaff : Eugen Haase Katja Riemann : Eva Braun Jürgen Schornagel : Adolf Hitler Tobias Schenke : nameless concentration camp inmate Tilo Prückner : Heinrich Hoffmann Katharina Thalbach : Hertha Haase

Goebbels and Geduldig is a television film about the Nazi leadership in National Socialist Germany from 2000. The film was initially held back due to its subject matter and was only shown on November 20, 2002 in the ARD program .

action

Reich Propaganda Minister Goebbels survived an assassination attempt on his person. As a mastermind he suspects the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler , who has also had a double Goebbels', the Jew Harry Geduldig, imprisoned in a fortress for years. Goebbels now suspects that Himmler wants to have him replaced. He goes to the prison to shoot his doppelganger, but this fails because his gun is not loaded. Only Goebbels and Patience remain angry in the room, after which the two are confused.

Nobody in the environment of the Reich Minister suspects, only Adjutant Brenneisen is unsure at first, but is convinced of the patient authenticity by photographer Heinrich Hoffmann , who allegedly could smell a Jew 100 meters away. When visiting Obersalzberg , Hitler personally does not become suspicious either. Only Magda Goebbels guesses what happened and wants to force patiently to drive back to the prison and murder her husband imprisoned there. On the way there, however, Geduldig fell victim to an attack. Harry Geduldig dies immediately. In order to cover up the attack, the real Joseph Goebbels, whom the initiates believe to be the doppelganger, is brought out of the castle and reinstated as Reich Propaganda Minister.

background

The Berghof was shot inside in the Baden-Baden studio. The set designer Götz Heymann looked for the motifs in Neresheim and the surrounding area, in Switzerland and France.

criticism

"Largely convincing comedy with a good cast that drives its illuminating joke with the horrors of the past and breaks some German taboos."

- Lexicon of international film

"Based on a script by Peter Steinbach, Kai Wessel staged a brilliant political satire that skilfully varied the theme of Charlie Chaplin's" The Great Dictator ". Particularly good: Ulrich Mühe in the title-giving double role. "

- prism

Web links

• Goebbels and patiently in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Goebbels and Geduldig at Fernsehserien.de

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Goebbels and Geduldig in the Lexicon of International Films
2. ↑ Goebbels and Geduldig , prisma.de