A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
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Christine Leunens (novel), Taika Waititi (screenplay)
As wild as its title, JOJO RABBIT follows the protagonist, a German boy, a Nazi fanatic given the nickname of JoJo Rabbit (Roman Griffin Davis) during a Nazi training camp for failure to kill a rabbit in order to prove his loyalty to the Führer.
It is not an easy task to make a tasteful film with Nazi Germany in the setting and a fanatic Führer young boy as the lead. But it has been done successfully – ie. Germany Nazi comedy in TV series like HOGAN’S HEROES and ALLO ALLO.
The boy also has an imaginary friend giving him advice throughout the story, as Humphrey Bogart advised the meek Wood…
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