Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)

August 3, 2023 12:48 PM

[TRAILER] Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot.

Starring Petr Kostka, Jiří Sovák, Vladimír Menšík, Vlastimil Brodský, Marie Rosůlková, Otto Šimánek, Valerie Chmelová.

Directed by Jindřich Polák. Written by Miloš Macourek, Jindřich Polák, Josef Nesvadba. A Czechoslovakian production in Czech.

Rated at 3.6 on Letterboxd.

Available in its entirety on YouTube with English subtitles. JustWatch.

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posted by DirtyOldTown (1 comment total)

If you watch only one absurdist Czech time travel comedy about Hitler today: make it this one.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:02 PM on August 3, 2023 [2 favorites]