>I was wondering about the spoken German. I don't think any of the actors are native speakers of German. Is there anyone who's particularly bad or particularly good?
Hitler was ok, he is a german actor I think (but seems to have left germany long time ago, guessing by the movies he did in the US) but one thing bothered me a bit, because in one episode he said to Smith that he is dismissed - in german he said "Sie sind entlassen" which means something else, "you are laid off", which makes absolutely no sense in what he wanted to say. Dismissed would be translated as "weggetreten" (military word, roughly translated as 'move away').
The best german was done by the field marshal in the war room in S2E10, this was perfect german, because the actor is really german and played in a lot of german movies.
New-Hitler is a french actor, he probably learned some german in school, it's ok but you can clearly hear it's not his native language and some pronunciations are a bit off.
Smith/Joe have a heavy accent but you can understand most of it, although there where some (rare) instances where I had to look up the subtitles to understand the words they said, because I could not understand it at all (was something in S2 that I just binge-watched).
All in all it's ok for a US show with non-german actors, but they should have a native german speaker at the set correcting them, especially in the last case I made where they said some stuff that was impossible to understand.
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Cyraxote
8 years ago
Field marshal? Himmler, you mean? This guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0863024/reference
Well, considering that actors who don't speak the language are basically memorizing what to them are nonsense sounds, the fact that any of them are even comprehensible is at least somewhat impressive. To me, having been an actor (in another life, so to speak), this would be far more difficult than learning an accent.
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