ER IST WIEDER DA

After directing such films as COMBAT GIRLS and WETLANDS, David Wnendt has now turned his attention to adapt­ing Timur Vermes’ debut novel, the social satire ER IST WIEDER DA (LOOK WHO’S BACK), which was in the Top 10 of Der Spiegel’s bestseller list for over a year, No. 1 in The Times bestseller list, and has been translated into more than 40 languages. It is summer 2015 and Adolf Hitler suddenly wakes up on an empty plot of land in present-day Berlin, 70 years after his presumed demise. The war is over, his party is no more, and his beloved Eva is not there to console him. But, against all the odds, Adolf begins a new career on television because he is universally mistaken for a brilliant comedian – even though he is indeed the genuine article...

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