Menu Total(1986)

Menu Total is a provocative experimental film that follows a traumatized young man abused by his father, who fantasizes about becoming Adolf Hitler as a form of revenge. Director Christoph Schlingensief deliberately abandons linear narrative, instead crafting a fragmented, dreamlike work that challenges rather than resolves Germany's relationship with its Nazi past. Released during a heated debate among right-leaning German intellectuals about national reconciliation, the film stands as Schlingensief's fierce rejection of easy historical reckoning. Confrontational and surreal, Menu Total uses its protagonist's disturbing imagination to interrogate trauma, power, and the seductive appeal of fascism. The film remains a bold, uncompromising statement on how nations process collective guilt.