by Eleanor Mannikka
synopsis
With his usual cast of oddball characters and over two hours of polemics and shenanigans, director Herbert Achternbusch is at it again in Heilt Hitler!. The main thrust of this 1986 opus is focused on some questionable cultural traits of Bavaria, and, as might be expected in an Achternbusch work, a large dose of sexual situations, parodies, and innuendo. Certainly a bit long even for his admirers, this journey into a strange world is best taken by the already converted.
