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 BERLIN (AP) - Coming soon to German cinemas: a demoralized, drug-addled Adolf Hitler who plays with a toy battleship in the bathtub, dresses his dog in Nazi uniform and takes acting tips from a Jewish concentration camp inmate.
The movie opening Jan. 11 is treading ground that once would have been off-limits. This is not Mel Brooks' "The Producers" or Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator," but a German movie that dares to treat Hitler as comedy.
"Mein Fuehrer: The Truly Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler" follows the Oscar-nominated "Downfall," the 2004 German film which broke new ground in portraying Hitler from a German perspective — offering a controversially intimate and lifelike portrait of his last days.
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