Comedy · Germany · 1997 · 1h 35m

Conversation with the Beast

Gespräch mit dem Biest

Director

Cast

Armin Mueller-Stahl as Adolf Hitler Bob Balaban as Mr. Webster Hark Bohm as Dr. Hassler Katharina Böhm as Hortense Harald Juhnke as Adolf Hitler Double Dieter Laser as Peter Hollstein

Crew

Gérard Vandenberg — Director of Photography Ingo Ehrlich — Editor Klaus-Peter Beyer — Original Music Composer Armin Mueller-Stahl — Screenplay Tom Abrams — Screenplay Rudolf Steiner — Producer

Synopsis

An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler himself retired into a bunker below the S-Bahn tracks and married a second time.

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