Conversation with the Beast (1997)
An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler himself retired into a bunker below the S-Bahn tracks and married a second time.
Director:
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Writers:
Tom Abrams, Armin Mueller-Stahl.
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Armin Mueller-Stahl as Adolf Hitler |
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Bob Balaban as Mr. Webster |
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Hark Bohm as Dr. Hassler |
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Katharina Böhm as Hortense |
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Harald Juhnke as Adolf Hitler Double |
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Dieter Laser as Peter Hollstein |
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Dietmar Mues as Heinrich Pfaumann |
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Kai Rautenberg as Horst Sievers |
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Otto Sander as Adolf Hitler Double |
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Peter Fitz as Dr. Segebrecht |
| Directing | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Director |
| Editing | Ingo Ehrlich | Editor |
| Writing | Tom Abrams | Screenplay |
| Art | Heinz Röske | Set Designer |
| Writing | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Screenplay |
| Production | Rudolf Steiner | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Barbara Jäger | Costume Design |
| Sound | Klaus-Peter Beyer | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Rainer Schaper | Set Designer |
| Camera | Gérard Vandenberg | Director of Photography |