Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund Freud.
Acting
Norman Rodway's Hitler is grotesquely magnetic—you can't look away.
Direction
Hershey's surrealist touches make history feel like a waking nightmare.
Writing
Freud as Hitler's therapist? Diabolically clever conceit.
Director
Barry J. Hershey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film deliberately strips Hitler of his 'evil genius' myth, portraying him as a pathetic, rambling narcissist—a risk that divided critics.
Joel Grey's casting as one of Hitler's projections adds meta-layering: the Cabaret emcee who mocked Weimar decadence now trapped inside the Führer's mind.
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