Der Fuehrer's Face

1943 "The picture from which the song sensation was taken!"
7.5| 0h8m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 1943 Released
Producted By: Walt Disney Productions
Country: United States of America
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A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald awakens to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare.

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Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
John T. Ryan THERE HAVE BEEN times in our life when it seemed that we thought that, perhaps a little too much is made of the Armed Forces and their place in the scheme of things. Needless to say that we have long since abandoned that sophomoric position for one of both sense and sanity. And, although it occurred before we were thought of, we know that no one living through World War II would share such a notion, if only for a moment.THE Disney PRODUCTION crew managed in bringing us a near perfect example of the marriage of entertainment with propaganda. Yes, we said propaganda and meant to do so; for that is one word that seems to consistently be used in a connotative manner, equaling some moral evil. In reality, the stem word, propagate, means to cultivate, increase in number or to instill understanding in others' beliefs.AS FOR THE cartoon, it moves along at an incredible rate; demonstrating how life would be under a Fascist regime. One Mr. Donald Duck is chosen to be the laboratory guinea pig and is placed in Nazi Germany. Being a blue collar guy, he has not a moment to himself.FROM MORNING TO night, he is constantly having orders barked out at him from totalitarian bureaucrats. The heavy handed 'instructions' come from person or persons who are largely unknown; save for their hands and swastika bearing shirtsleeves. No matter how hard or long he works, it's not enough.TIME OFF AND any recreation must be measured out in such a manner so as it shouldn't interfere with the War Production for the Third Reich. There is a gag that features a sort of virtual reality of a worker's 'vacation' to the Alps. A backdrop screen and sound effects add to the narration to transform the worker in an instantly staged break; then, back to work on an assembly line that he's never left.ONE PARTICULAR GAG that we really have enjoyed is Donald's work on a munitions assembly line conveyor belt. In it, DD is required to tighten up all shells' attachments to warhead (bullet or slug) in an ever increasing rate. The situation is remarkably similar to Charlie Chaplin's lot in life in his MODERN TIMES (1936) and may very well have been inspired by or lifted as a sort of homage from "the Little Tramp's" performance in that classic film.THE CARTOON SPORTS a fine, deeply satirical song that serves as the very core of the story. Originally being performed by a sort of "All Star" Oom-Pah-Pah Band, made up of caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito; representing the Axis Powers of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. The song "Der Fuehrer's Face" was later recorded by Spike Jones and his City Slickers and was a big hit single for them.AT PICTURE'S END, all is once again well for Donald Duck. How? Well, we're not going to tell you. Watch the cartoon!
Claudio Carvalho In World War II, a marching band playing "Der Fuehrer's Face" passes by Donald Duck's house. He awakes, has a poor breakfast with stale bread. Then he goes to an army factory where he works in the production of ammunition brainwashed by the Nazi propaganda. Donald Duck has a nervous breakdown with the stressed situation but when he awakes, he finds that he had a nightmare and he actually lives in United States of America.The historical cartoon "Der Fuehrer's Face" is an effective and caustic propaganda in times of war. Despite being dated in 2009, the despair of Donald Duck is still a hilarious fun against the Nazism and tyranny of Hitler. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): Not Available
Angel Meiru Before the era of Political Correctness, Disney made some good animation. The World War II shorts were no exception.I noticed some of the PC crowd mislabeled this short as being pro-Nazi, because it shows Donald Duck working for the Nazi. NOT TRUE! Sure, he does work for them, but against his will. And all is revealed to be a dream and Donald is thankful of living in America.I also like the very end part were Hitler gets a tomato thrown in his face.Get Disney's "On the Front Lines" collection for good historical WWII shorts.
ihatestairwaytoheaven Leonard Maltin was right when he said, (in his new introduction on the DVD set) that this cartoon is "very funny". It tells the story of Donald Duck, who has a nightmare he's living in a place overrun with "nutzis", (supposed to represent the nazi party). He eats wooden bread, slaves away in Hitler's ammunition factory, a is rudely awakened by the film's catchy title number.Disney withheld the cartoon for many years because of it's subject matter, it's just another instance of people trying to erase history. I'm glad Disney finally had the balls to release this. It's hilarious. Even more so after the war is over, and history tells us what buffoons Mussolini and Hitler really were.Anyway, to cut this short. This film is classic. One of the best I have ever seen, not only from Disney, but ever.10/10