We’ve all cringed at films like Borat and The Dictator which saw Sacha Boren Cohen take his life in his hands with potentially offensive characters in risky situations.
But new movie Look Who’s Back, based on the 2012 novel by Timur Vermes, resurrects the most hated figure of them all as actor Oliver Masucci takes on the role of Adolf Hitler to see how he would cope in modern Germany.
The plot of the film sees Hitler awake from a coma in his bunker 70 years after his death and explores how he would react to a Germany at peace led by Angela Merkel. As the film, which goes on general release in Germany tomorrow (Thursday 8th October), progresses, Hitler is taken to be a spot on method… Read the full story