The lights are still on in the Hitler bunker

The Nazi satire "Gitler Kaput!" is causing a furore in Russia. Sonja Zekri plays down its historic references in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "It did not come as a complete surprise when the Peterburg communists called for a distribution ban on Veisburg's Nazi revue and appealed to all 'communists, patriots, veterans, youth organisations' and even the Church to mobilise support against "Gitler Kaput!" The filmmakers [above all the producer Sergei Livnev] countered dialectically, pointing out that, to paraphrase Marx, it was precisely laughing that hammered the last nail in the coffin of fascism - and all other ideologies. That is perhaps a bit optimistic. But in a country that uses its past as a kind of box of theatrical props to adorn itself with major Soviet or Tsarist feats and indeed with anything that has the appearance of being big and strong, "Gitler kaput!" is a refreshingly irreverent little film" that has little to do with the past and far more to do with the patriotism of the modern Russian jetset."

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