The movie is called HITLER KAPUT! As some of you know, the film is a lunatic comedy in the tradition of AIRPLANE or the NAKED GUN movies. It's about a Russian spy undercover as a high ranking officer in the Third Reich near the end of the war. It's a Russian language film, which makes it a wonderful challenge to cut. But since most of the film is sight gags anyway, the language becomes easily universal. Funny is funny. Here. In the US. Anywhere.
I've never laughed so hard while working in my life. The movie hits Russian theaters April 24 and, if you ask me, has a chance at being one of the biggest movies of the year. It then moves west to the rest of Europe shortly after.
Russia's experience during WWII is a bit of a sacred cow here so there's some question as to how the older generation is going to take it. But the younger audiences will lap it up. They've never seen anything like it here. Ever.
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Now that you've given us the premise of the film and looking at the actors in the stills made me want to laugh. But "I know nothing, I see nothing" and still if you say you've never laughed so hard it's enough to get me giggling.
Mom, you're gonna love it. Wait till you see the German soldiers doing the Busby Berkeley routine, complete with overhead shot looking down on them making those patterns the way they did in the 30's.
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