Hitler kaput!

The Great Patriotic War is coming to an end; it will soon come on May 9, 1945 . Soviet intelligence officer Alexander Isaevich (“Shura”) Osechkin works for the good of the Motherland under the name of SS Standartenfuhrer Olaf Schurenberg at Hitler’s headquarters in Berlin , where he is successfully engaged in subversive activities . Due to the duty of “service”, he performs office work, and in his free time recklessly “hang out” in nightclubs with “colleagues” - real Wehrmacht officers, so as not to be a “black sheep” and not cause them suspicion. At the glamorous “corporate parties”, Shura reads rap , sings “ Kalinka-Malinka ” in karaoke and dances “ Swan Lake ”.

Soon, from the "Center" to the super agent Schurenberg, with the next task, they transfer the assistant - the charming radio operator Zina. A romantic relationship is struck between Shura and Zina.

Mueller sends Iron Hans to deal with Schurenberg, but he kills Hans. Bormann , realizing that Schurenberg is a Soviet intelligence agent, inclines him to have an intimate relationship with him and blackmails, promising to extradite him to the Führer in case of refusal.

Schurenberg, realizing that he is on the verge of failure, is going to leave on a special channel to his homeland. At this moment, the Gestapo captures and tortures the radio operator Zina. Schurenberg tricked Bormann into signing a translation document and taking her away. Together they attack Adolf Hitler and Eve Brown , bind them and rob them of their clothes. Having changed clothes, agents try to escape from the dungeons of the Gestapo, but they are discovered. They manage to escape and get to the front line. However, when they see their portraits with the inscription “Enemies of the People Wanted” at the checkpoint of their Soviet border, they are forced to flee to nowhere. Kuzmich, a friend of Shura, opens a door for them in the wall, and they leave. In the final scene, Shura and Zina run into the distance ...

The film has little to do with military themes and does not claim historical accuracy. The film is based on the exploitation of the theme of traditional folk parables and anecdotes about the legendary Soviet intelligence agent Stirlitz , while some scenes are similar to the modern relations of the so-called “ white-collar workers ” in the office environment, as well as relations in the “ glamor ” society, etc. The film is grotesque makes fun of this relationship.

On September 17, 2008, the day before the premiere of the film “Hitler Kaput!”, The Interregional Public Organization “ Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region ” demanded that the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg not to release the film.

“... The release of the film (approx.“ Hitler Kaput! ”) Will harm the health and morale of war veterans , blockades , all who honor the memory of the dead Soviet soldiers , all who consider themselves to be Russian and Soviet culture. ... The film offends such masterpieces of domestic cinema as “ Hot Snow ”, “ Seventeen Moments of Spring ”, “ Shield and Sword ”, “ Major Whirlwind ”, “ Ballad of a Soldier ”, “ Liberation ”. ... A film can have a particularly dangerous effect on the minds of adolescents who know little about the Great Patriotic War . ”

- Interregional public organization " Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region ", September 17, 2008 ^[3] .

The film begins with an exceptional cynicism story about the partisan Rabinovich (played by Mikhail Galustyan ), dressed in a striped robe of a concentration camp prisoner , whom the SS men are leading to death. This episode caused a storm of indignant emotions from people who watched the film ^{[4] [5]} .

“Hitler Kaput!” Caused a wave of various critical publications in the press ^[6] , as well as statements by officials about non-compliance with moral and ethical standards in the film, the lack of a plot in the film ^[7] . About the film they wrote:

• “The exhausted joke turns into some kind of pseudo-crazy fable. The Nazis speak like 14-year-old boys ”(Kg-portal.ru) ^[8] ;
• “Even for a parody in this film there are too many swastikas” ( Film.ru ) ^[9] ;
• “Jokes are sprinkled incoherently, and most of them are clearly not worth being spoken out loud” (Afisha.ngs.ru) ^[10] ;
• “Even before the release of the film“ Hitler Kaput! ”They accused of insulting the memory of the victims of World War II . After watching this film, I affirm with all responsibility: he only scoffs at the numerous cliches of bad Soviet films about the war, and these cliches deserve to be ridiculed. ... Laughing hysterically when watching a new domestic comedy is unlikely to succeed, there is no special sense here either, but it is quite suitable for a very unpretentious vacation. This picture enhances the mood, and there is almost no vulgarity in it, which is not so small in modern times ”(Ruskino.ru) ^[11] .

The film received the 2009 Silver Galosh anti-award in the nomination Massaraks of the Year, or Cinema Does Not Drown.

According to the website of the Film Distributor ’s Bulletin , the box office of the movie Hitler Kaput! In Russia for the first month and a half of rental (as of November 2, 2008) amounted to 245,469,464 rubles ($ 9,618,709) with attendance of 1,633,730 viewers. In the first week, the film became the rental leader, far surpassing the fees, the runner-up adventure film " Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D " (USA). In the second week, he lost first place to the musical film Mamma Mia! "(USA). From the third week began a decline in attendance ^[1] .

The film "Hitler Kaput!" Included the following musical compositions:

1. Sanchez - Chunga Changa
2. "City longing" - "Gomel-Hanover"
3. Otpetye scammers group - Bryanskaya street
4. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - “ Dance of the Little Swans ”
5. Drum Ecstasy - Spanish
6. Drum Ecstasy - New One
7. Leningrad Group - Manager
8. “Mahala Rai Banda” - “Mahalageasca” (“Shantel's Bucovina Dub”)
9. VIA Pesnyary - Vologda
10. Lilia Soul - Manchester et Liverpool
11. KVN team “KhAI” - “Meine Kleine”
12. Squirrel Nut Zippers - My Drag
13. Connie Francis - Who's Sorry Now
14. Band'Eros Group - Columbia Pictures Does Not Represent
15. Max Raabe & Palast Orchestra - “ Oops! ... I Did It Again ”
16. Megapolis Group - Karl-Marx-Stadt
17. Mellowdrone Group - Moon River
18. Garik Sukachev - “I recognize my sweetheart by gait”
19. Orchestra and chorus of the Mariinsky Theater, performed by Valery Gergiev - “The National Anthem of the Russian Federation ”
20. Serge Polyansky - Mein Liebe
21. Dabac Group - Partizan
22. Group " Earthlings " - " Grass at home "
23. Hildegard Knef - Sei Mal Verliebt
24. Dominic Halpin - “Sway”
25. Brilliant Group - Agent 007
26. Timati feat. Anna Semenovich - “Love and Peace”

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• Feature film “Hitler Kaput!” (Russia, 2008; German: “Hitler's kaputt!”). Abstract, actors, creators, photographs. // ruskino.ru
• The film "Hitler Kaput!" In the Internet cinema ivi.ru