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Goebbels und Geduldig
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Wikipedia article
'Goebbels und Geduldig' is a 2002 German war comedy television film about Joseph Goebbels and Nazi Germany, directed by Kai Wessel, written by Peter Steinbach, and starring Ulrich Mhe 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 Mhe: Joseph Goebbels / Harry Geduldig
*Eva Mattes: Magda Goebbels
*Gtz Otto: Brenneisen
*Dieter Pfaff: Eugen Haase
*Katja Riemann: Eva Braun
*Jrgen 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 Mhe in his double role. The German 'Lexikon des internationalen Films' praised the cleverly written satire script and its "enlightening wit".
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