There are many movies about the Nazis, and some about Adolf Hitler as a person. In my opinion, almost all of them fall short of their subject matter; you can't even begin to touch the big catastrophe of the 20th century using an earnest, or a light comedic approach. This is the only adequate Hitler movie, because it shows Nazism for what it was: a bunch of crazy people stuck in a dark hole, fighting the world, each other, and themselves. That is not to say that more serious information about the ideological, social, and economic background of Nazi Germany is not important and useful. But there is another side to German fascism, the utter insanity of it all, and this is shown by Schlingensief in an intensity that no-one before or since has accomplished.
