Goebbels und Geduldig
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Directed by | Kai Wessel |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Goebbels und Geduldig is a 2002 German war comedy television film about Joseph Goebbels and Nazi Germany, directed by Kai Wessel, written by , and starring Ulrich Mühe in the two titular roles.
Plot[]
Harry Geduldig is a Jewish lookalike of Goebbels, who has been held captive and a secret by Heinrich Himmler ever since the Nazi rise to power in 1933. In 1944, Goebbels finds out about this and intends to liquidate his double. When the two men meet in person, Geduldig manages to escape and is from now on considered the real Goebbels by his entourage. Meanwhile the real Goebbels is held captive by Geduldig's prison wards and thought to be his own Jewish double.
Cast[]
- Ulrich Mühe: Joseph Goebbels / Harry Geduldig
- Eva Mattes: Magda Goebbels
- Götz Otto: Brenneisen
- Dieter Pfaff:
- Katja Riemann: Eva Braun
- Jürgen Schornagel: Adolf Hitler
- Tobias Schenke
Production[]
Due to its controversial nature as a Nazi satire, the film was in development for seven years, throughout which the script went through a number of substantial changes (18 different scripts were written). Even though the film was in fact finished in 2000, it was widely tested on international film festivals for two years to see how foreign and especially Jewish audiences would react to it, before it was eventually broadcast on ARD in 2002 after the broadcast had been announced and rescheduled several times.
Reception[]
German reviewers praised especially the performance of Mühe in his double role. The German Lexikon des internationalen Films praised the cleverly written satire script and its "enlightening wit".
External links[]
- 2001 films
- German-language films
- 2000s satirical films
- 2000s war comedy films
- 2001 comedy films
- 2001 television films
- German comedy films
- German films
- German World War II films
- Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler
- Cultural depictions of Joseph Goebbels
- Secret histories
- Films about Nazi Germany
- Films about lookalikes
- Films set in 1944
- 2000s German film stubs