Hitler Meets Christ

January. 01,2007      
Rating:
4.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Hitler Meets Christ premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival in 2007 and went on to play at other festivals internationally. Written as a play by Michael Moriarty entitled "Hitler and Christ meet Death at the Port Authority Bus Station" while living in New York and acting in Law & Order, it was adapted for screen after Moriarty moved to Vancouver Canada. The film was produced by Brendan Keown and Jeremy Dyson of Third Tribe Productions and directed by Brendan Keown.

Michael Moriarty as  Hitler

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Reviews

Cathardincu
2007/01/01

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

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SnoReptilePlenty
2007/01/02

Memorable, crazy movie

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Hayden Kane
2007/01/03

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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Francene Odetta
2007/01/04

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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lorenzoestevez
2007/01/05

OMG! This has to be seen to be believed - a stage play turned into a walking conversation between Jesus and Hitler !!!? The indepth conversation covers all the aspects of religion and Hitlers horrid lack of empathy for humanity - a really terrific film ... i believe it was a Play originally and i wish it was redone by someone ....

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goodc
2007/01/06

*** CONTAINS SPOILERS ****** I was disappointed by this movie that promised so much. 20 minutes into it I thought this was very interesting: these characters could as easily be Hitler and Christ as they could be modern delusionals at a bus station. They were talking about interesting ideas involving guilt and death and eternal punishment, but as the film continued, it needed its premise of an afterlife and the Christian worldview more and more.It began to investigate the specific rules of the afterlife in this particular setting, and that kind of thing simply turns me off; one can spin any kind of tale one wants based on the rules one makes up for the film. None of the questions about Christ's personal relationship with his (yes, his) father (yes, father) has anything to do with the larger questions posed at the beginning of the film. It got more and more parochial, establishing that the Hitler character had to learn how to die before he could die, and establishing that all human beings are Christ before ** spoiler *** Christ commits violence against Hitler out of a loss of patience.That's a complete bailout on the questions the film raised.OK, so you could make the argument that even Christ can't forgive Hitler. You could make the argument that Christ is fallible, as a human. You could make the point that Hitler is a human being, but this movie gets so tangled in the rules of the afterlife that all those arguments take a back seat; then it seals the deal by having Christ physically attack Hitler.And then you add the fact that Christ is portrayed by a handsome white actor, even as the script has him describe his mother as looking nothing like her portrayals in western art, but rather as a working Jewish woman, and I gotta wonder about the writer's intended message.Finally, the Hitler character refers repeatedly to his pride at creating the ultimate killing machine. I think the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki may differ with that judgement.

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