Misfits

[rich]

speaking of the Bunker this movie is the strangest of them all. miles away
from Downfall. there's hitler's nightmares about prostitutes (both sexes),
rats, hitler and goebbels like two kids at a frat party pounding the table
in unison shouting Blood Blood Blood, the goebbels children playing a board
game called Kill the Jew or some such, the lampshade made of jewish skin
given to Hitler as a gift.

doubt its been shown much in the US due to its unorthodox take
rich

*The Death of Adolf Hitler* was a 1973 British television film starring Frank
Finlay <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Finlay> as Adolf
Hitler<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler>and Caroline
Mortimer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Mortimer> as Eva
Braun<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Braun>.
The film details the last 10 days of Hitler's life as World War
II<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II>comes to an end and
Allied <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Powers> troops are closing in
on the *Führerbunker <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerbunker>*.
Michael Sheard (who played Himmler) and Tony Steedman (who played Gen.
Jodl) would play the same roles in U.S. television film *The
Bunker<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bunker_%281981_film%29>
* in 1981.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

>  On 1/13/2012 5:46 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>
>
> Haven't checked out "Die Wohlgesinnten" yet, but your review is certainly
> worth reading:
>
> http://www.oomska.co.uk/the-kindly-ones/
>
> In one of the editions - is it the French one? - Aue, or so I read, bites
> off the Führer's nose.
>
>
> That certainly happens in the American version.  It's the final days of
> the war. He escapes execution by a lucky accident, but is immediately
> confronted for other crimes I won't go into.
>
> Awe seems to have been offended by the nonAryan look of the Hitler's nose.
>
>
> P
>
>
> A synopsis of the German debate, which also provides the names of the
> novel's non-fictional characters, you can find here:
>
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wohlgesinnten
>
>
> On 12.01.2012 15:45, rich wrote:
>
> I admit to being quite impressed by the Kindly Ones; even wrote a review
> of it. I think its worth reading.
>
> rich
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> see, the thing is that those narratives are so compelling that I may
>> not be able to resist.
>> I've read a sheaf of The Kindly Ones for instance, and I have no
>> trouble admitting his basic premise which is that I could very well
>> have done the things he did...
>> I had meant to have it read in toto by the end of 2011, but the real
>> life you are reluctant to share (and although I have less reluctance
>> about that, I have no statement at present) made non-negotiable
>> demands.  I plan to post loquaciously on it eventually, though...
>>
>
>
>
>
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