Here are my favourite German Portrayals in television and film
Johann
The IT crowd "Moss and the German"
Ah the IT crowd, Graham Linehan at the top of his game again. Here are amusing German comes in the form of Johann... the cannibal. Moss mistakenly attends a cookery course at Johanns house on to find that Johan didn't want to cook with him, but instead cook using him. Poor Johann and his sweet disappointment. My favourite thing about Johan though is his dramatic playing of the cello during the episode.
Johan is played by the pro cellist-come-actor names Philip Rahm. Bravo Philip...bravo.
Check it out here
Dr Strangelove
From Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
After years of pledging to watch Dr Strangelove and never getting around to it. I finally sat down to watch it this week and it was great. I think my favourite thing was Dr Strangeloves seemingly possessed Nazi arm, which tries to give a Nazi salute, and choke its owner much to the rest of his bodys chagrin. Hats off to Mr Sellars.
SPOILER ALERT - last scene
Basil Fawlty
Fawlty Towers, The Germans
While seeking to add to the post i asked a few friends about their favourite portrayal of Germans. Basil Fawltys monumental cock up customer service stood out. Indeed we could hardly get away with out one Hitler portrayal, only added to in this case by John Cleases extreme lankyness. There's just no point in describing this one, you have to watch...
My final clip was going to be Prince Consort, Albert from Blackadders Christmas Carol, until I realized that Jim Broadbent was not actually trying to portray a German.. the accent just came off that way.. or maybe its more Austrian. He fully admits in the documentary that he did no research for the accent. He lucked out, its a gem.
I cant find a clip... youtube is not my friend today..bootube.
Auf Wiedersehen,
Mulq
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