Futile Fuehrer gets no laughs

Germany's first attempt at a comedy about Adolf Hitler has opened with critics and cinemagoers dismissing it as vulgar and embarrassing.

Mein Fuehrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler, by Jewish director Danny Levy, was meant to be Germany's long-awaited answer to classic satires such as Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, and to show that Germans had reached a point where they were able to laugh about the Nazi leader.

Mein Fuehrer portrays Hitler as a bed-wetting drug addict.