‘Mein Kampf’ – First Photos

Filming of George Tabori’s filmgroteske, adaptation of Hitler’s book ‘Mein Kampf‘ with Götz George and Tom Schilling in the leading roles started on April, 22. The first shots are from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace.

Tom Schilling plays the young Adolf Hitler who lives in Vienna and shares his room with two Jews, the book dealer Schlomo Herzl (Götz George) and the cook Lobkowicz (Bernd Birkhahn).

Mein Kampf is a Swiss / German / Austrian co-production with 2.7 million euros budget.

Director: Urs Odermatt
Writer: George Tabori
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Adolf Hitler Farce-Biopic Begins Filming in Vienna

Filming started on a tongue-in-cheek biopic of Adolf Hitler in Vienna on Tuesday, which producers say will be a “timeless parable” of the struggle between good and evil.

The film, “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle), is based on a play of the same name by the late Hungarian-Jewish playwright George Tabori and will premiere in Germany next year.

Rather than trying to present a historically accurate version of Hitler’s early life in Austria, the film, directed by Sweden’s Urs Odermatt, mixes reality and fiction with a hefty dose of irony.

“All this will be blended with a psychological profile of a future tyrant,” the producers said in a statement.

In the script, a fresh-faced Hitler played by German actor Tom Schilling arrives in Vienna with dreams of becoming a great artist. The true Hitler had ambitions to become an architect.

Short of money, he shares a room with two Jewish men, Lobkowitz, a failed cook, and a bookseller named Herzl, who takes the young Hitler under his wing. Continue Reading…