at Cannes 2010 - German Film

Mein Kampf
Genre Drama, History, Theater Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director
Urs Odermatt Director of Photography Jo Molitoris Editors Lilo Gerber, Claudio Cea Music by
Enis Rotthoff Production Design Carola Gauster Producers Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny, Marcos
Kantis Co-Producers Danny Krausz, Christoph Neracher Production Company Schiwago Film/Berlin,
in co-production with ZDF Theaterkanal/Mainz, Dor Film/Vienna, ORF/Vienna, Hugofilm Productions/
Zurich, SF/Zurich Principal Cast Goetz George, Tom Schilling, Wolf Bachofner, Bernd Birkhahn, Karin
Neuhaeuser, Paul Matic, Elisabeth Orth, Henning Peker, Simon Schwarz, Anna Unterberger Length 109 min
Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound
Technology Dolby SR Festival Screenings Montreal 2009, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2010, Solothurn
2010, Berlin 2010 With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, Medienboard Berlin-
Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), IBH HessenInvestFilm,
MEDIA, Oesterreichisches Filminstitut, BAK Bundesamt fuer Kultur, Zuericher Filmstiftung, Aargauer
Kuratorium
Urs Odermatt was born in 1955 in Switzerland and has been working in film, television and the theater
since 1983 after studying Directing and Scriptwriting with Krysztof Kieslowski and Edward Zebrowski. A selection
of films includes: Rotlicht! (1986), Gekauftes Glueck (1988), Wachmeister Zumbuehl
(1993), Mein Kampf (2009), and Der Boese Onkel (2010), as well as numerous TV movies.
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In the year 1910 young Adolf Hitler leaves his
hometown in the deepest Austrian province and
travels to Vienna. Aiming to conquer the world
as a famous painter he wants to prove his talent
at the Academy of Fine Arts. The young artist
rents himself a room at a home for the homeless
and waits for his big day. He shares his room
with the Jewish book-seller Schlomo Herzl. With
the arrival of the Academy’s re jection, it turns
out that Hitler overestimated his artistic abilities
and his little world falls apart. Having lost all
faith in his future, Hitler cannot get over his
ignominy and wants to put his life to an end.
Ironically, it is the Jewish man Schlomo who
finally suggests to Hitler to try his luck in politics.
It does not take long and Hitler becomes the
head of a local radical group, which is known for
its violent action.
The bittersweet grotesqueness of Mein Kampf
is based on the fable-like theater play by George
Tabori, which has found its way onto stages
worldwide since its premiere in Vienna in 1987.
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