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Netflix Picks Up the Controversial Hitler Comedy, ‘Look Who’s Back’

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Netflix has picked up the global rights, outside of a few countries, to work on the highly controversial series Look Who’s Back.

The adaptation of Timur Vermes’ bestseller Adolf Hitler waking up, unharmed and unrepentant, in modern-day Berlin.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Netflix will take global rights outside of German-speaking Europe, Benelux, Japan, Taiwan, the Czech Republic and Slovakia for the feature. The film will be available on the SVOD service on April 9.

Look Who’s Back did pretty well in Germany, earning $21.9 million in general release in the country. Director David Wnendt opted for a Borat-style filmmaking style to recreate Vermes’ novel, combining fictional scenes with hidden-camera encounters, in which actor Oliver Masucci, as Hitler, meeting up with regular Germans on the streets of Berlin.

However, the movie was pretty controversial.

From The Guardian:

Critics, though, have been underwhelmed. Some argued the novel “trivialised” the dictator’s crimes by making the reader laugh not at, but also with him. Others felt the satire just didn’t bite enough: “A mediocre joke that suddenly got successful,” as author and critic Daniel Erk put it.

What do you think? Share with us your thoughts in the comments below!

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