Doesn't Germany have strict rules when it comes to dressing like Hitler? Were those real responses from German citizens, did they know it was a movie? Was this filmed Borat style? Anyway, I was impressed with it and thought it was very well done, funny too.
"how's a fella go about gettin' a holt of the police?" -Karl
Apparently, the sections with him on the street were all filmed completely ad lib: real reactions from real Germans. Now, how much of that represented a percentage of all the footage shot just so they could get the message? Who knows, but what we did see was scary enough.
shareEh, if I saw a dude dressed like hitler out on the street I don't know how my reaction would be much different as you obviously know it's not actually hitler but some fruitcake dressing up.
Real life doesn't included the 2 hour movie introducing the character prior to seeing him out & about, thus I wouldn't read too much into the end scenes.
I feel like they had some "cover" provided by the presence of cameraman and some kind of crew presence, so that people didn't think it was "real" or an actual political event, which shielded the film from prosecution for violating actual anti-Nazi laws.
A good chunk of the road trip simply had "Hitler" looking like Hitler, but without any uniform. This may also have helped diffuse reaction.
We also don't see the many bad reactions they got that ran counter to the intended narrative of the film. I'm sure there's hours of footage of people booing this guy or threatening him with violence, or the police stepping in and asking questions and trying to shut that moment's filming down.
We also don't see the "setup" scenes before the scenes shown in the movie. Maybe the actor playing Hitler cracks jokes and makes fun of "being Hitler" before shifting character for the footage they actually wanted.
I really liked this film, especially the first 2/3s or so, but it's also a great example of how manipulative filmmaking can be, especially when its trying to appear "spontaneous" and "real" when it's not.