Submitted for your approval, a completely disgusting, but darkly and perversely funny, piece of Soviet WWII propaganda. Thought to be a lost film, Young Fritz tells the bizarre story of what happens when a baby joins the Nazis. It's just as hilarious and frightening as you'd think a film with a description like that would be.
So first off, there's this guy. Everyone knows him. He's a racist. Like Hitler, he professes the superiority of the Arian race, but is not actually a member of it himself. Another level to the absurdity comes when the doctor tells the audience that he can always tell a member of the Nazi party by tapping on their skulls. "They ring!" he says, beating on the skulls with a hammer, a hollow "ting" sound emitting from them. The staging of this sequence sets the precedent for the rest of the film. With the stark, black backgrounds it retains the look of a stage play, or perhaps a surreal, horrifying lecture from hell.
