Mein Kampf (feature film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | My fight |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Urs Odermatt |
| script |
Martin Lehwald , Urs Odermatt |
| music | Enis Rotthoff |
| camera | Jo Molitoris |
| cut |
Claudio Cea , Lilo Gerber |
| occupation | |
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The film Mein Kampf from 2009 is a film adaptation of the play of the same name with Tom Schilling as the young Hitler, Götz George as Schlomo Herzl and Bernd Birkhahn as Lobkowitz, directed by the Swiss artist Urs Odermatt . Filming locations were Vienna , Zittau , Zgorzelec , Herrnhut and Székesfehérvár . The premiere was in Canada in August 2009 and the German theatrical release was on March 26, 2011.
action
The film is set in a men's asylum in Vienna's Blutgasse in 1910 . The young, despotic, untalented draftsman Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. He meets the Jews Schlomo Herzl and the cook Lobkowitz. Herzl and Hitler become friends. The clever bookseller Schlomo Herzl is working on a novel with the working title Mein Kampf . When Hitler is rejected by the admission committee of the Vienna Art Academy , Herzl comforts him. For the first time in his life, Hitler experienced something like affection. Herzl's care for the sad man, who has never cried in his life, even goes so far that it leads him to a new career, with fatal consequences for world history. The Jew prepares Hitler for a life as a politician and even gives him the title of his novel so that Hitler can use it for his political writing. Finally, Herzl transforms him outwardly into the Adolf Hitler, whom historiography knows.
criticism
The film largely failed the German-language criticism . For Jörn Seidel von der Zeit, “Odermatt turns out to be a free-rider for Hitler,” the strip “lost the wit of the original as a result of its striving for authenticity.” Sonja M. Schultz writes on critic.de that the film “consistently lacks the timing Tabori's dry absurdities ”. According to Wolfgang Höbel from Spiegel "[the film] tries hard with a lot of pseudo-realism to offer the viewer a belittling format that has really lost nothing in the cinema or in the theater" and for Jan Schulz-Ojala from Tagesspiegel "it buries [ Urs Odermatt] the full life of the original piece under patina and postcard views. ”The lexicon of the international film says:“ In the figure drawing as well as the time image, the adaptation does not find a convincing approach and is exhausted in the naive, stilted trivialization of the Hitlerite Figure."
Web links
- Website for the film
- Mein Kampf in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Entry in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ Reuters : Hitler farce "Mein Kampf" filmed in Vienna on April 24, 2008.
- ↑ Sächsische Zeitung : “Mein Kampf” shot in Zittau ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated May 15, 2008.
- ^ "Nobody can laugh about Mein Kampf" , Metakritik on moviepilot.de, March 3rd, 2011
- ↑ Jörn Seidel: Free riders of Hitler , Die Zeit, March 2011
- ↑ Sonja M. Schultz: Mein Kampf , film review on critic.de, January 20, 2011
- ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: "Mein Kampf" film adaptation: When Hitler was still Little Adolf , spiegel.de, March 3, 2011
- ↑ Jan Schulz-Ojala: His cramp , Tagesspiegel, March 3, 2011
- ↑ My struggle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
