Dani Levy

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Dani Levy (born November 17, 1957 in Basel, Switzerland) is a film maker, theatrical director director and actor. His films include RobbyKallePaul, I Was on Mars, Meschugge, Du mich auch and Väter. Väter starred Christiane Paul. His most recent film is Alles auf Zucker!, a comedy about a secularised Jew from the former GDR who has to reconcile himself with his Orthodox brother. A comedy about Adolf Hitler starring German comedian Helge Schneider titled Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler was released in January 2007. Levy said he was influenced by the theory of Swiss-based psychologist Alice Miller, published in 1980, that something must have gone wrong with Hitler in his childhood.

He is one of the founders of the German company X Filme Creative Pool. Levy is Jewish.[1]

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  1. ^ Fleishman, Jeffrey. "A farcical attack on Hitler taboos", The Los Angeles Times, 2006-12-17. Retrieved on December 17, 2006.

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