asks one headline. This is where Look Who's Back succeeds, even after the cheap-shot comedic effect has worn off: It is ultimately a sort of commentary on Hitler's first ascent to power—on the ...

The elevator pitch for Timur Vermes’ debut novel “Look Who’s Back” is, in itself, a hilarious litmus test for reader queasiness. It’s the summer of 2011, and Adolf Hitler — the one and ...

Based on Timur Vermes’ bestselling 2012 novel of the same name, “Look Who’s Back” begins with a simple premise: What if Adolf Hitler inexplicably reappeared in present-day Berlin ...

However, as The Atlantic pointed out in its insightful piece on the history of Hitler in comedy, Look Who’s Back is as much a barbed reflection of how Hitler is portrayed and remembered in ...

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.

Followed categories will be added to My News. In the satirical Look Who’s Back, Hitler wakes up in present-day Berlin with no memory of any events after 1945. Then, mistaken for a famous ...