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תוכנית האירוח "פיני הגדול" שהייתה רצועה יומית בה גילם קופטש את דמותו של פיני הגדול, בובה המחוברת לראשו של קופטש, שהיוותה מעין אלטר-אגו אנטי-פוליטיקלי קורקט של קופטש, "ילד רע" בפני עצמו. בפרק הזה שיצא בשנת 2003, יצר יחד עם עורך התוכנית, גיא מרוז, מערכון בו התארח "אדולף היטלר" לראיון בלעדי "לרגל הוצאת קלטת שירי ילדים חדשה וחתימה על חוזה חדש עם ערוץ הילדות.

Director : אהרון קפלן, יורם זק

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 5

Language : Hebrew

The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin’s first “talkie”. A satiric attack on Hitler and Nazism, telling the story of an amnesiac Jewish barber (based on Chaplin’s “tramp”), who happens to resemble Hitler. Chaplin plays both the barber, and the role of “Adenoid Hynkel”, the tyrannical dictator of “Tomania”. The Jewish barber, who lost his memory while serving in the First World War, was subsequently hospitalized for twenty years. When he tries to return to his barbershop upon his release, he finds that it is inside the Jewish ghetto, controlled by SA thugs. Although The Great Dictator was made when the world did not yet know the whole...

Director : Charlie Chaplin

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 116

Language : English

Schtonk! - The film about the Führer's Book

Based on actual news story that took place in Germany in the early 80s, this comic satire tells of Fritz, a life-long forger of Nazi memorabilia and Herrmann, a journalist who works for a tabloid-style magazine, who run into each other and fabricate a story of "Hitler's Diaries," a con that would acquire headlines for the journalist and cash for the forger. Best foreign language film nominee at the 1993 Academy Award.

Director : Helmut Dietl

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 90

Language : German

Will Eisner - Portrait of a Sequential Artist

The godfather of the American comic book, Will Eisner enjoyed a career spanning 1930s cartooning to contemporary graphic novels. Part of an unparalleled group of Jewish cartoonists, Eisner stretched the boundaries of storytelling, developing the comic into a mature combination of art and literature. In 1939, he created The Spirit (recently adapted as a major motion picture), a gritty crime fighter series. Much of his work incorporated the Jewish experience and struggle against anti-Semitism. This accomplished documentary features a wealth of artwork, as well as interviews with comic luminaries Art Spiegelman and...

Director : Andrew D. Cooke

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 98

Language : English

Underlying Antisemitism

Naftali Gliksberg sets off on a journey following stories, people, events and places in which contemporary Anti-Semitism is manifested. This series investigates the roots of this modern Anti-Semitism, as evident in recent years around the world. The series was shot in 10 countries in Europe and the USA. Throughout its 4 episodes the viewers are exposed to incredible discoveries about the depth of Anti-Semitism in different countries and the new form it has taken. Parades in the streets and Neo-Nazi ceremonies have been replaced by a kind of social culture, shared by apparently ordinary, educated people and...

Director : Naftali Gliksberg

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 75

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Polish

The Day the Clown Cried

Helmut Doork, a once great and famous clown, is fired from the circus. Getting drunk at a local bar, he pokes fun at Hitler in front of some Gestapo agents, who arrest and send him to a prison camp. Helmut angers his fellow prisoners by refusing to perform for them, wanting to preserve his legend. As times passes, Jews are brought into the camp, with fraternizing between them and the other prisoners strictly prohibited. Eventually, Helmut is forced by the others to perform or be beaten. His act bombs and he leaves the barracks depressed, trying the routine out again alone in the prison yard. He hears laughter...

Director : Jerry Lewis

Language : English

Snide & Prejudice

A feature film and a comedy. At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe that they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantasies. The therapy sessions show Hitler consolidating his power by assembling his gang of supporters/ They are interrupted at times, because a patient who believes he is Picasso interrupts a session.

Director : Philippe Mora

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 121

Language : English

Eretz Nehedert ("A Wonderful Country") - Knesset Member MP Ruchama Avraham and the 60th anniversary celebrations with German pop group "Modern Talking" , 6.1.08

Satire on the TV program "A Wonderful Country". The "minister" Ruhama Avraham and celebrations of 60 years of Israeli statehood with the German pop group "Modern Talking", 6.1.2008. With Orna Banai, Eli Finish, Tal Friedman and Eyal Kitzis.

Director : עדי בנימינוב, בן בכר, רועי פלורנטין

Production Year : 2007

Language : Hebrew

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Borat Sagdiyev, a television reporter from Kazakhstan, travels to America in order to make a documentary about this great country. In New York he watches the TV show 'Baywatch' and falls in love with Pamela Anderson, He sets out on a journey to find her. On his travels, Borat meets many Americans and challenges them with his broken English and his ideas brought from the heart of Asia. What happens is that in spite of the great distance between the countries, there are many similarities: racism, hatred of women, they are not limited to the so called 'Third World". The fictitious character of Borat allows...

Director : Larry Charles

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 80

Language : English, Russian

Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall

London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence "Spike" Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing - and some not-so amusing – scrapes. Based on the first volume of Milligan's war memoirs.

Director : Norman Cohen

Production Year : 1972

Duration : 139

Language : English

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