Nazis made a comedy about hypocrisy. The irony writes itself.
The double standards of a social class, which pontificates with big words what is proper and improper in the world of morality, while in its heart thinks very differently and acts accordingly.
Acting
Fita Benkhoff's deliciously camp Ernina steals every scene
Direction
Zerlett's polished Weimar style in fascist drag
Director
Hans H. Zerlett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the transitional 1936 when Nazis still allowed 'harmless' entertainment to mask ideological control. The film's mockery of bourgeois morality conveniently ignored the regime's own hypocrisies.
Rudolf Klein-Rogge—here playing a pompous police president—was the iconic mad scientist Rotwang in Fritz Lang's Metropolis. His career survived Weimar, Nazi, and post-war eras while many colleagues fled or perished.
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