Hitler the Artist...?

A concept that I’ve always amazed hasn’t been cashed in on more. This film tells the story of a 30 something Adolf Hitler struggling to find his calling in life after fighting at the front line in world war one.
Hitler (Noah Taylor) befriends a rich Jewish art dealer Max Rothman (John Cusack) who also served in the war and finds a common sympathy for Hitler’s sense of a lack of belonging and frustrations at the world around him in which he can’t quite find a place.
Rothman isn’t overly convinced with Hitler’s art but sees potential in his passion and vision, if only he can manage to harness it and project that onto the canvas.
Ever more frustrated at his inability to express himself visually, and at the Government for so submissively being beaten by the ‘Treaty of Versailles’ Hitler finds himself drawn towards the world of politics and takes instead to the stage to express himself. Of course the rest of the story is now History.

A film that gives a very different insight into the frantic mind of Hitler displaying his nervous frustrated and disjointed cognitive nature which is very different from the polished fervent image we are all familiar with, but its an aspect that Taylor incorporates and develops well as Hitler finds his footing in the arena of anti-Semitic public speaking.


7/10