What if your mom's dying confession was that Hitler was your dad?
A young Roman receives from his mother, who is dying, a shocking news: he is the natural son of Adolf Hitler, conceived during a fling between the Führer and the lady during the visit that the German dictator made to Italy in 1938.
Acting
Enrico Montesano's manic everyman energy sells the impossible premise
Direction
Lucidi walks the tightrope of satire without a safety net
Director
Maurizio Lucidi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Italy's Years of Lead, the film weaponized absurdism against both lingering fascist nostalgia and bourgeois respectability—part of a wave of Italian comedies that mocked authority through grotesque premises.
Eugene Walter, who plays Stoltz, was an American expatriate writer who edited works for Princess Margaret and appeared in Fellini's 8½—his presence here as a Nazi functionary is deeply surreal casting.
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