Title: Jojo Rabbit
Original Title: Jojo Rabbit
Year: 2019
Info
- Country: Germany USA
- Length: 108 Minutes (1 hour 48 min)
- Budget: $14,000,000
- Genre: Comedy Drama War
- Studios: Czech Anglo Productions
- Distributor: 20th Century Studios
- Age rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: January 03 2020
- United States: October 18 2019
Plot
In this comedic satire, Jojo Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) is a solitary child from Germany during the years of Hitler and World War II who lives with his mother (Scarlett Johansson). He is enrolled in the youth bases of the German army, at the orders of Adolf Hitler. The child has no friends, only an imaginary one, who is the very same führer, who pushes him towards the most nationalist and patriotic beliefs. Together, the will live different adventures, but everything is going to change when he discovers that her mother has a jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) hidden in his own house, who will force him to face his fears and make him reconsider the structure of thought that had been formed, remembering him he's just a little ten years old boy. That will be how Jojo will start to discover that jewish people aren't so different to him, as he used to thought, and he will start to have an opinion so moved away from his imaginary friend, Hitler.
The film is directed and written by Taika Waititi ('Thor: Ragnarok'), and is based on the novel 'The Caged Heaven' by Christine Leunens. Following the steps of Charles Chaplin and his 'The great dictator', Waititi dares to wear the Hitler's moustache and playing him on the screen in this satire starred by Scarlett Johansson.
Awards
- 2020 Academy Awards (Oscars): 6 1
- 2020 Golden Globes: 2 0
- 2020 BAFTA Awards: 6 1
Cast
Director:
Jojo Betzler
Elsa Korr
Adolf Hitler
Captain Klenzendorf
Rosie Betzler
Fraulein Rahm
Yorki
Videos
Taika Waititi's Acceptance Speech (BAFTAs 2020 - 'Jojo Rabbit')
February 3 2020
December 13 2019
October 25 2019
'Jojo Rabbit' clip: "Be the rabbit"
October 19 2019
Photos
Trivia
English and German
Even though the spoken dialogue is all in English, all written or printed text in the movie is in German.
Stylish war
Taika Waititi discovered in his research that WWII Germany was very vibrant and fashionable, and was interested in shying away from traditional war films showing it as dreary and dark, instead presenting the town as a seemingly celebratory place and dressing characters as stylishly as possible. He liked the idea that everything seems happy, but just underneath the surface "the third Reich is crumbling, and, you know, the dream is over."
Based on a novel
The film is based on the the novel 'Caging Skies' by author Christine Leunens.
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