Any thoughts? Maybe he's the commander of the white Tiger (the soul of the German people)?
Leave the gun, take the cannoli...
Just saw the film and ask the same thing. The shadowy figures mannerism of having his hand against his face seems familiar but I just cannot place it. Perhaps it is not meant to represent a particular individual, although Hess does come to mind as I think about it.
shareMight have been talking to the future fuhrers of the DDR Pieck, Ulbricht, or Honecker...strange but in the future configuration.
what ails most madmen is realitys grasp or escape, a paralysis of analysis
He speaks to Lucifer himself, as the director once explained.
shareLucifer! What a brilliant concept from the film maker. Any memory of where the director explained this. This is why directors commentaries are such an important feature of DVD presentations. Lucifer eh? Brilliant. All makes so much more sense knowing that. Thanks george_ned
shareIt also seems to be a very calm conversion. Lucifer looks like he's very interested in what Hitler has to say.
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Lucifer???
The guy looked like some university grad student (psychology department).
Should have had someone like Christopher Lee sitting there instead.
Send her to the snakes!
Lucifer.
I realized the same when I first watched the movie.
Hitler is dead and is in hell. But he is a VIP guest of Lucifer Satan, having committed death, destruction, misery, and mayhem on an unprecedented scale on earth before committing suicide in the fuhrer bunker in Berlin. Lucifer dwells in only the best, his infernal mansion in hell and so the literally damned Hitler gets to spend quality time alone with the devil in the devil's posh, luxurious study room, replete with a roaring fireplace. But like hell should be, there is no sense of comfort, ease, or warmth, despite the fireplace.
The devil looks like he is rumored to want to look like, a sophisticated, elegant, attractive European white man still in the bloom of maturity, of immense wealth, power, and means, the typical kind of villain in the James Bond movie franchise.
Yes. I thought the same.
Just coming to IMDB after watching the film on cable TV.
Interesting film. A bit surreal, though.
As this scene was at the end after the Fall of Berlin and the signing of the surrender treaty we can assume Hitler has already died and is talking to a supernatural figure in the afterlife, the Angel of Death or Satan himself. Perhaps defending his position for Judgement Day Hitler was trying to rationalize, explain and justify why he did what he did specifically why he got rid of the Jews.
shareI see the whole movie as kind of a fantasy or meditation on national souls (the souls of nations) and what they may represent through their interactions. Gurdjieff wrote about that, I believe. I hardly remember it now though might see it again.
shareI thought it looked like Mitt Romney ... which confused the hell out of me!
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