Thomas Dinger, brother of Klaus Dinger, formed 1-A Düsseldorf together with… Read Full Bio ↴Thomas Dinger, brother of Klaus Dinger, formed 1-A Düsseldorf together with Nils Kristiansen. Although their name is very similar to the former band of Thomas, La Düsseldorf, their music sounds more experimental. They released 5 albums.
After the death of Thomas Dinger in 2002, Nils Kristiansen has completed the last album, Pyramidblau, with Viktoria Wehrmeister and Steffen Domnisch as a tribute to Thomas Dinger.

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1-A Düsseldorf Lyrics

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Take me back
So please take me home

Overall Meaning

The lyrics "Take me back, so please take me home" from 1-A Düsseldorf's song Overtüre convey a sense of longing and nostalgia. The first line implies that the singer wants to return to a previous time or place, perhaps to relive happy memories or escape from present difficulties. The second line reinforces this desire for comfort and familiarity, as "home" represents a sanctuary where one can feel safe and at peace.

The repetition of the word "take" in both lines also contributes to the overall mood of the song, as if the singer is pleading with someone to help them find their way back to a happier state of mind. The simplicity of the lyrics allows for a wide range of interpretations, depending on the listener's personal experiences and emotions.

Line by Line Meaning

Take me back
I want to return to a previous time or place in my life

So please take me home
I am asking for someone to help me return to a place where I feel safe and comfortable

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@Diggers5

3y↑21

Yes - it is a gem indeed!
When I first saw this movie I was simply amazed.

Mel Brooks is a great creator of broad film farces, e.g. Blazing Saddles and comedic parodies, e.g. the TV series Get Smart.

He was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York, to Max (1895–1929) and Kate (née Brookman) Kaminsky (1896–1989).

His father's family were German Jews from Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland); his mother's family were Jews from Kiev.
Mel had real balls to do this scene in 1968.
He won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for The Producers:
Mel Brooks Wins Original Screenplay: 1969 Oscars - YouTube

All comments from YouTube:

@Kinlochbervie50

3y↑3.2K

Singing "don't be stupid, be a smawtie; come and join the Nazi Pawty" in the most thick, gratuitous, New York Jewish accent always kills me.

@Teddingtin

2y↑40

It’s not a jewish accent.

@faceoctopus4571

2y↑429

@@Teddingtin Well, it is a jew's voice. Specifically Mel Brook's.

@quizmaster85

2y↑6

😯😲😮😧

@pablopastor508

@@Teddingtin The Ashkenazi Jews stole it from the Germans

@Smokey298

2y↑6

@@Teddingtin what is it?

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@numberwoah3616

4y↑2.8K

It’s crazy how this is about 50 years old and it’s still hilarious

@spliish

4y↑58

lmfao yeah it has aged perfectly

@j3lny425

4y↑53

Mel Brooks is a genius .

@Boskov01

4y↑41

Indeed. It's why the Marx Brothers are still hilarious even decades after they've all passed away. Same for the Three Stooges. It's the personification of the phrase "Timeless Comedy."

@Weesel71

3y↑19

No PC cops back then.

@olstar18

3y↑3

@@spliish While the material has aged perfectly I just can't stand this version. Now the more recent version with Lane and Broderick is excellent.

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@teresahorstman276

3y↑790

The first time I saw that spinning human swastika I think my jaw was hanging down to my ankles...and then I laughed till I cried. My mom, who grew up in southern Poland during the war, laughed hysterically, too. Thank you, Mel Brooks.

@G6JPG

44w↑7

Unfortunately, they rarely show that sort of Buzby Berkeley dance film these days, so that particular aspect of the parody is fading.

@gerardjlaw

42w↑4

Interestingly, that shot was cut when the BBC transmitted the film during the 1980s and 1990s.

@erikbihari3625

31w

@@gerardjlaw. So, they letting them win!

@gerardjlaw

31w↑1

@@erikbihari3625 It's been shown in its complete form for a long time now.

@erikbihari3625

31w

@@gerardjlaw. So it was never cut out then?

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@brotherhoodofsteel4170

4y↑2.7K

The fact it was made 23 years after WW2

@brotherhoodofsteel4170

4y↑93

theHolyToast Show exactly I wonder how people reacted

@johngalik6609

4y↑228

theHolyToast Show Well, kind of more like making a comedy out of Osama Bin Laden.

@MarkedUserName

4y↑4

@Bomberninja

4y↑192

Is that where south park got that joke where you have to wait 23 years for a serious thing to be joked about?

@brotherhoodofsteel4170

4y↑12

Bitbit I believe so

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@unclenogbad1509

3y↑925

Love that Brooks choreographed the audience's horrified reaction as much as he did the dancers. Producers is a work of savage, hilarious genius. 'Talk about bad taste' - yes, baddest and best.

@BettyJoBialofski

3y↑44

This film "rises below vulgarity!" --Mel Brooks

@WoodlandDance

50w↑4

Alan Johnson was the dance choreographer

@johnharris6655

49w↑8

What did these people expect from a show called "Springtime for Hitler."

@nectarinedreams7208

42w

Referring to comedy as "savage" is so fucking cringe

@unclenogbad1509

42w↑4

@@nectarinedreams7208 'Cringe'? What is that?
You must be one of the newer folk. Or maybe just posh, delicate, or suffering from affectation.
Also, I'm guessing your idea of comedy has maybe stalled at the level of the Mickey Mouse Club.

The funniest comedy always has some bite to it, and the best bites really deep. Savagely, you might say.

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@feschneider1985

4y↑649

Some of those "horrified" audience members look like they are trying very hard not to laugh. Can't say I blame them.

@odranoel2987

3y↑9

@@antikid1247 it's a movie the springtime for Hitler musical doesn't actually exist

@Threedog43

3y↑1

@@antikid1247 if by shortly you mean 23 years after it ended.

@gravityguntv2572

3y↑7

they shot the horrified look thing separately, its not like they were watching the play

@SuperGomez59

2y↑2

The actress to the left hand side of Franz Liebkind (the actor wearing the german helmet) looks like she's trying not to laugh

@bobinobaker

3y↑1K

It was brave of Mel to produce such a musical film less than 23 years after the end of the horror, and the success confirmed it

@kirklarson4536

2y↑201

I saw an interview where he said one of the best ways to fight evil is to make it ridiculous.

@R3dp055um

Mel Brooks had balls the size of Texas grapefruit.

@papaofthejohns5882

@@kirklarson4536 Yeah, nazis and fascists are all about the image of strength and power, so when you make them look pathetic and as something to be laughed at, it’s quite effective

@alecfoster5542

2y↑100

@@kirklarson4536 And only a Mel Brooks could carry it off. Not only because he is a creative genius, but a Jew and combat veteran of WWII as well.

@h.a.9880

1y↑42

Strangely enough, I never even thought about that aspect. To me, it was an old hilarious movie, I never contemplated that it was so close to the actual end of WW2, it was like a completely different world, where the wounds of the war and the trauma was much fresher and more present. For heaven's sake, it's not much different than 9/11 is to us nowadays.

It's not just that Mel Brooks was a total genius for pulling this one off, he's also got massive cojones to even try with such a subject matter.

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@morlokvestai-kurak9680

3y↑2.5K

If you laugh at horrible people, they lose their power over you.

@windingpath

3y↑127

Only works when they are not in power.

@mortallious1234

3y↑40

How would that have worked in Auschwitz?

@danielmoorefield4891

3y↑5

Yep.

@crableg8339

3y↑32

@@mortallious1234 if you laugh hard enough youll cough up your lungs and then you cant breathe the gas

@user-is9nm4vw8j

3y↑25

Doesn’t works, I laugh at my bully and he hit me even harder

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@johnq.public4252

3y↑1K

Mel Brooks actually wanted to make this the movie. But the studios said no. So he came up with The Producers. He's a genius.

@faceoctopus4571

2y↑136

Based on what I heard, the movie was pretty much what he was out to make. The thing he was forced to change was just the title of the movie. He didn't invent the whole fraud plot to sate a studio.

@timewarriorsaga

2y↑28

Fun story somewhere overseas still used the springtime for Hitler title and even used the naming scheme for most movies

@robertmiles1603

1y↑6

well now that just makes me wanna see the movie he originally wanted to do. but now we'll never get to >:(

@Ouroboros70

1y↑8

Basically what JoJo rabbit is.

@headsetsquirrel2581

1y↑25

@@timewarriorsaga Sweden. Here it’s called “springtime for hitler”, And his other films are named “springtime for Frankenstein”, etc.

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@valkyriesardo278

3y↑491

Even the themed costumes on the show girls are hysterical, the beer steins, the pretzels, the tabletop skirt.

@geoffwilliams4478

3y↑21

Don't forget the Krauts

@philattlee1

3y↑3

I didn't notice that.

@Demonetization_Symbol

2y↑8

I liked the beer outfit.

@richardheaney1525

52w↑2

Mmmm, pretzels.

@kaylahensley1581

46w

The phallic silhouettes kill me.

@novelsolvings8024

3y↑212

The musical number itself is hilarious, but the audience reaction and the one guy wildly applauding might be the most side-splitting thing Mel Brooks has ever done.

@mercurywoodrose

1y↑3

when a bad play as one fan, the fan is normally not assaulted. this is the most severe reaction to a review you disagree with.

@Sanchewich

16w

The one guy is Franz Liebkind, the writer of the musical.

@hoodatdondar2664

15w

@@Sanchewich No, Franz is in the helmet.
That is actualy Alan Johnson applauding at the end. He choreographed the whole thing, and Mel thought it would be a great gag to put him in, wildly applauding his own work. And having no one at all agree with him.

@isaacmiraldi9168

4y↑585

The balls that this took

@isaacmiraldi9168

4y↑19

Brad Parker it’s like calling Ben Shapiro a nazi

@lenawagenfuehr53

4y↑24

@Brad Parker he barely got away with it then! They had to get Peter Seller's endorsement...like Mel.Brooks and Gene Wilder weren't.Jewish enough!

@Kira1Lawliet

4y↑26

@Brad Parker Dude what the hell are you talking about? This would be tame by today's standards. Have you ever heard of a movie called Jojo Rabbit? The comedy about a young boy with Hitler for a wacky imaginary friend? Yeah, that got nominated for an Oscar, and it came out in 2019. Not everyone is a twitter snowflake—the majority of people, and in fact the majority of liberals, are more okay with this stuff than you think.
In fact, people were WAY more uptight back when this film was made, as evidenced by how controversial it became when today it wouldn't be that controversial at all.

@Nonamearisto

4y↑12

@@Kira1Lawliet Jojo Rabbit only got away with it BECAUSE of comparisons with The Producers. If it had to be made without reference to it, it couldn't have been made by Hollywoke.

@Kira1Lawliet

4y↑17

@@Nonamearisto I don't think you know what you're talking about. Jojo Rabbit had almost nothing to do with The Producers, and few people were comparing one with the other. Further, you're contradicting your own point. If today's filmmakers were so hypersensitive that a movie like the Producers would never be made today, then how does it makes sense for a movie that, at least in your mind, builds off of something like the Producers and goes even further with that kind of tone, to be not only made but critically and commercially successful? Maybe you're just espousing a rosy view of the past and telling yourself that people are just more sensitive today than they were then. In reality, people then were more sensitive (they actually had and enforced obscenity laws that could land you in jail for using crude language in public settings, which, as much as you might harp against modern social media culture, is nonetheless far more totalitarian than what we have today). The only difference is in what they were sensitive towards. People then were just as sensitive in favor of conservative sensibilities as people today are in favor of liberal ones. The cultural position of the sensitivity has changed, and in terms of it changing by degree, it's actually considerably softer now than it was back then.

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@BookshelfBattleblog

32w↑29

Mel was satirizing Broadway's ability to take literally anything and turn it into tacky pageantry. It was bold because in 1968, people who suffered from WW2 were still fairly young and the bad memories were still fresh, but I think most people understood he was making hitler look like a schmuck.

@NoahSpurrier

3y↑290

I love the pretzel pasties. I remember from somewhere that the dancer refused to put swastikas on her nipples, so they compromised on pretzels instead.

“We’re marching to a faster pace. Look out, here comes the master race.”

This is one of the best movies ever.

@Fete_Fatale

2y↑23

"We're March" ...ing
= Wehrmacht

@NoahSpurrier

50w↑4

@@Fete_Fatale damn! Yes. How did I not hear that all this time?

@Fete_Fatale

50w↑4

@@NoahSpurrier Lol ... I suppose it's one of Mel's "hidden in plain sight" jokes.
If it's any consolation, it also took me years to spot it :)

@kimberlymyers2083

43w↑1

I agree, as soon as I saw the pretzel pastries, I lost it!!!!

@kimberlymyers2083

43w↑1

Pasties, not pastries

@cpreston8996

2y↑246

Absolutely brilliant work by Mel Brooks. A concept of a shady Broadway producer and a neurotic accountant purposely putting on a flop production about a singing performance artist hippie Hitler and his dancing / singing Nazis was a stroke of genius. Best ever parody of one of mankind's biggest monsters.

@manuelorozco7760

1y↑1

I prefer Young Frankenstein

@eyeseer1

48w↑2

A comedy of horrors.
A ridicule of evil

@thatoneguychad420

15w

Or misrepresented figures...

@terrinceautry

11y↑1.7K

The audience response is my favorite. It gets me every. Single. Time. And the actors goose-stepping across the stage. Holy Mary. I cant stop laughing and I've seen it dozens of times. XD

@martinkooistra7867

4y↑77

Let's not forget those ridiculous costumes the models wear, particulary the one with the pretzels for a bra.

@annoldham3018

4y↑6

It's pure genius. 🤩🤩😂😂

@quizmaster85

4y↑3

😮 / 😧 / 😨 / etc.

@jobob47

3y↑22

note the audience member wearing the german army helmet at 2:24 or so.

@terrinceautry

3y↑38

@@jobob47 that person is the one who wrote the play! LOL Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder sought him out. Kenneth Mars is the actor. He’s hilarious and has been in a few of Mel Brooks’ films.

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@michaelmayo

1y↑117

Here's a little known fact; we owe "The Producers" not only to Mel Brooks, but Peter Sellers. Sellers was in town and wanted to see a movie, so he and his group went to a local industry screening room. The movie he wanted to see wasn't there, so his people looked to see what was, and they found "The Producers," which had been sitting there while the studio tried to decide what to do with it. Sellers watched it and immediately called the studio and said they had to release it; and the rest is history...

@VCT3333

45w↑12

He also took out a full page with his own money, which is amazing as Sellers was a known miser, asking people to go see the movie, calling it a work of genius.

@hoodatdondar2664

15w

Props to Sellers, never knew he got it out of limbo.

@alcarbo8613

3y↑93

“Winter for Poland and France” gets me every time

@garyrasberryjr.552

2y↑94

Mel won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for this. His acceptance speech was amazing (and hilarious). He thanked Gene Wilder at least three times.

@ceceliaclarke

41w↑2

I think that he should have expressed the same amount of gratitude for Dick Shawn's performance. Gene Wilder did what was expected. He's in almost every scene, so he had to be good, or this film would have dragged down and flopped, but Dick Shawn is the bright and brilliant light of this film. His way of playing his part was original and hilarious. He showed just the right amount of energy, for an in-the-clouds peace and love counter-culture person. Did not go for slapstick or broad, attention getting comedy. He was brilliant and wonderful, in the audition, and as a counter-culture peace and love Hitler.

@donpietruk1517

39w↑1

@@ceceliaclarke I would also add Kenneth Mars for his hysterical portrayal of the unreformed Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind. The scene where he's comparing Churchill and Hitler is side splitting. It's done very subtly and skillfully by a great character actor. He steals almost every scene he's in.

@ceceliaclarke

39w↑1

@@donpietruk1517 Yes. He is a perennial favorite. There is just quite a bit of slapstick and broad comedy to his portrayal. I prefer the more understated approach of Dick Shawn. Zero Mostel is low key, dead-pan and understated like this, and I think that this is why he's so memorably wonderful in this. Gene Wilder is a little over the top with his acting, in my opinion. He does not really give the impression of a mild-mannered, soft-voiced accountant. I do understand your appreciation of Kenneth Mars in this film. Someone in this story had to be frenetic and out of control, to balance Dick Shawn's peace -loving stoner character, and
Zero Mostel's jaded, cynical, seen-it-all-before charracter. Kenneth Mars was also very wonderful. Thank you for your comment.

@KJ-of6lf

32w

@@donpietruk1517Churchill was not a painter! Hitler could paint an entire room in an afternoon!

@KDedous

4y↑590

The original is far superior than the remake. One of the funniest movies ever made.

@QuinctiliusVarus

4y↑53

Absolutely. What is silly is how some people try to claim “It is not a remake. It is the film version of the musical” !! It IS a remake no matter how one slices it. Some of the scenes are almost exact copies except for the inferior actors. Will Ferrell was completely miscast and lousy.

@Eyes-of-Horus

4y↑13

In an interview Mel Brooks said he got the idea for the Zero Mostel character from some of the producers he knew when he started in show business.

@elizabethcarpenter4313

3y↑25

I LOVED the 2005 one!!! This one - eh....

@jamesshunt5123

3y↑21

@@elizabethcarpenter4313 Let me guess - you saw the remake first and had no idea it was a remake? Then after many years you finally learned there was an original movie but since you're one of those "first-impressions-are-stuck-forever-in-my-mind" kind of people the original became the remake for you. But never mind what you and I think, let's see what the audience thinks. First let's see the IMDB rating for the original: 7,6. And for the remake? 6,3. But let's also have a look what the professional critics think. On Rottentomatoes the original has a 90% rating (and a 85% audience rating), whereas the remake has a 51% (rotten) rating (63% audience rating).

And when it comes to commercial success, well, the remake only made $38,075,318 worldwide from a $45,000,000 budget. Ouch. That spells a flop.

So if you loved the 2005 one. Good for you. The Imdb (audience scores), Rottentomatoes (professional critic score) and the commercial flop of the 2005 version all speak against you.

If you're even serious to begin with. It's always wise to suspect that somebody who posts something silly only does it for the sake of online littering.

@ioncekilledamanwithmyshoe

3y↑70

@@jamesshunt5123 I agree that the original is better but why get so offended if somebody likes the remake better? It’s really not that serious, lmao. Let them have their opinion and you can have yours. It’s just a movie, why bring up what others think by showing them the rating? It’s not like it would change their mind once they find out other people didn’t think it was as good.

There is no right or wrong when talking about opinions, especially on trivial matters.

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@davidwoods8181

3y↑69

“You are the audience, I am the author, I outrank you!”

@SmashAtoms

2y↑100

The fucking choreographed synchronized swastika 😂😂😂 I honestly feel bad for laughing at that, but god damn, that’s genius.

@faceoctopus4571

2y↑15

It was made to be laughed at.

@morganalabeille5004

2y↑8

Funniest part is no one in the audience can actually see it

@colinstewart1432

2y↑1

Don't be stupid, be a smarty...🙉

@billfeldman2127

2y↑8

It was a reference to the June Taylor Dancers, who opened the Jackie Gleason Show in that era and whose routine always included an overhead shot. The number also includes homages to the Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley (who is also spoofed in the final scene, with Dom DeLuise, of "Blazing Saddles").

@obediahpolkinghorniii564

47w

@@morganalabeille5004 I bet the people in the nosebleeds could see it. I'm sure there's an analogy in there somewhere.

The poor knew what was coming, but the rich were too close to the action to see the big picture.

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@theslimiestfiberlog647

3y↑172

Mel Brooks…will hands down always be the OG of edgy comedy, nobody will ever do it like he did so successfully

@craigwheeler4760

2y↑1

The one Jew who came out of the Holocaust with his sense of Humor intact.

@themostbritishpersonalive868

4y↑468

Dolphins are returning in Italy
Meanwhile in Poland:

@themostbritishpersonalive868

4y↑12

@snowy the snowman that's pretty interesting

@Strawberry92fs

4y↑6

@snowy the snowman The fact that there isn't greater co-operation between the UN, NATO and the EU always seemed ridiculous to me. But I guess a lot of people already see the E.U. as some kind of Imperial Government rather than as a trade union, so I guess it makes sense that people would oppose merging all of those things into basically a world government.

@themostbritishpersonalive868

4y↑1

@snowy the snowman HANG ON where you implying something there

@moonshinei

4y↑1

@snowy the snowman yeah France is nationalist as hell are you surprised lmao

@itsjustme4848

4y↑6

@@moonshinei Yeah, the French think they‘re the only ones who are important. Which is ridiculous since Americans know WE are the only ones who are important.

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@marcbarham9854

3y↑213

Possibly the finest piece of political and social satire ever made?! Ever.

@saaandshark

2y↑19

Making fun of nazis, a time honored tradition since Charlie Chaplin

@colinstewart1432

2y↑1

Almost certainly 😆

@LWMTOSH

I Couldn't agree with you more

@signe8321

2y↑4

Jewish humor is great.

@blockcl

2y↑35

It's not hyperbolic to this a true milestone in filmmaking. "The Producers" has influenced everyone from John Waters to David Lynch to Quentin Tarantino. It holds up remarkably well, especially when compared to many other "important" movies of the late 60s, which seem painfully dated today. One of the few films worthy of the word classic.

@manuelorozco7760

I’ve seen better movies from the 60’s

@VCT3333

45w↑3

Dr. Strangelove holds up well as a comedy in the same macabre vein.

@Eyes-of-Horus

4y↑274

This scene has got to be one of the funniest ever put on film. What makes it so hilarious is the audience reaction. It always makes my stomach and cheeks ache from laughing.

@FFM0594

3y↑4

I was rolling on the floor the first time I saw this.

@dominique2693

@@FFM0594 I am sorry, but if you have read Primo Levi's "If this is a man" you will realise that there are some things too horrific to be transformed by comedy.

@obediahpolkinghorniii564

47w

@@dominique2693 Found the humor nazi.

@hoodatdondar2664

15w

@@dominique2693 I have, he’s wrong.
But it is a reasonable thing to think, won’t post a long essay. But will note that Mel himself said that there are things here to which a reasonable person could take offence.

Incidentally, Edgar Allan Poe agreed with you. From ‘The Masque of the Red Death”, when the company see the Masque:

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made. The whole company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit nor propriety existed”

And the debate goes on.

@hoodatdondar2664

15w

P.S. In 1942, Ernst Lubitsch released a Jack Benny comedy about the Nazi occupation of Poland. It makes this look tame. I still don’t quite see how the hell he made it work. Called “ To Be or Not to Be”.

Mel Brooks tried a remake in 1983. Like calls to like, I guess. Incidentally, the 1983 director was Alan Johnson, who appears in this clip as the only member of the audience at the end who claps.

@Lshannon90

11y↑279

By the time I was 12, I knew all the words to this song., as well as the words to the "Blazing Saddles" theme.Thanks Dad! This is one of my favourite movies of all time.

@TheLooterArmy

3y↑4

Same here. Blazing Saddles ftw

@danhurl1349

3y↑10

Same except my dad was my history teacher at the time and he showed it to the whole class and we were all little middle schoolers who didn’t get it but the song was catchy so off we pranced to recess singing “springtime for hitler.” Boy did my dad get some weird looks

@NoahSpurrier

3y↑7

You had an awesome father.

@paulchapman8023

3y↑5

My parents let me watch Blazing Saddles when I was 12 too, with a warning not to use the N word (which I already knew was a particularly bad racial slur).

@kevincaldwell4707

3y↑191

Only a mind like Mel Brooks could come up with this kind of hilarity

@jmaxh

2y↑40

Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, how can you not laugh with these masters?

@adler5165

4y↑333

Here goes my like. As a german this was hilarious

@yummyyum36719

3y↑8

You're a good sport!!!

@yummyyum36719

3y↑19

And BTW the war was a long time ago. The hatchet is buried. I am a big fan of German culture and music.

@erfannadernezhad190

3y↑3

How can this be hilarious for you ? 🤦‍♂️

@bigtony1434

3y↑20

@@erfannadernezhad190 Some people aren’t so easily offended maybe?

@subject2882

3y↑9

@@erfannadernezhad190 Not are Germans are Nazis?

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@simonfuller7331

1y↑24

One of the many films that should have never been remade. This is a masterpiece!

@G6JPG

44w↑1

I haven't seen the remake (I'd either forgotten or didn't know there was one), but just can't help wondering: why make one?

@321snoot

42w

@@G6JPG Totally agree with you. Why? Someone thinks they can improve on the original? I thought the same thing when they decided to remake Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Blasphemous!

@julianhermanubis6800

3y↑66

I definitely prefer this to the Nathan Lane/Matthew Broderick version, because the 1968 version just doesn't seem to care if it offends you. The 2005 version pulls some punches, but this version is utterly savage. Just brilliant jet-black satire.

@denvergregg7868

1y↑4

it was a crime to remove the Dick Shawn character. baby.

@rubytroy7756

1y↑1

I loved the Lane & Broderick version……..

@jrdougan

1y↑6

The contrast is especially interesting considering the War was only 23 years in the past in '68.

@drharoldpontiffcoomer

4y↑154

" I waz born in Dusseldorf, und zat iz why zey call me Rolf! "
1:18

@amadeodante

4y↑22

Dr. Harold Pontiff Coomer Don’t be stupid be a smarty Come and join the nazi party

@coolguy07oldacc

4y↑5

i read that in perfect sync

@FFM0594

3y↑2

I voz born in Passau.......

@guncannon109

3y↑5

Don't be stupid, be a smartie! Come and join the nazi party!

@lelonfurr1200

dont be stupid be a smartie come und join the nazi party

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@meganfaith4052

3y↑74

I genuinely love the outfits for the older version, the remake has its charm but old Hollywood had the edge.

@juanmonge8

3y↑6

Susan Strohman directed and choreographed the play and the film. A lady of incredible talent. I agree the 1968 film made me laugh at the top of my lungs.

@JONNOG88

2y↑1

Didn't care to much for the remake tbh. Though it was cool to see. Matthew Broderick & Nathan Lane. Share screen time again. For the first time since Lion King🙂

@manuelorozco7760

I prefer the remake

@hotelmario510

1y↑4

You couldn't make a film like this today. People would say, "Hey, wait a minute, this is just Mel Brooks' acclaimed satirical black comedy The Producers from 1968."

@jenniferfaneuff9739

3y↑76

A gem of satire. Mel Brooks is a treasure.

@dannymac653

25w↑3

I love how in the 2005 adaptation, Mel Brooks turned it up from 5 to 11.

@donpietruk1517

39w↑12

By the time they formed the revolving swastika I was rolling on the floor holding my stomach. This has to be the funniest musical number ever put to screen. Only Mel could be this audacious and this hilarious. My Polish mother who survived WW2 occupation by the Nazis saw this movie and said Mel was right, it's better to mock them than argue with them. RIP to a wise woman.

@aldusxenon

2y↑28

I would be the one guy clapping. This is one of the most awesome things I've ever seen in my life. Mel is hilarious.

@markhayward7400

37w↑4

Without equal as the most gloriously tasteless musical moment ever committed to film !

@paysonfox88

49w↑8

Interesting Facts about the writer of this scene Mel Brooks
1. He was a soldier in WWII who fought for about a year
2. He participated in the Battle of the Bulge
3. When the war ended, he was on a recon mission in the mountains

If There was anyone who earned the right to mock the Nazis, it was Mel Brooks. He fired bullets at them LITERALLY and Grenades! Then he took shots at them the rest of his life in words of movie scripts and plays.

@paysonfox88

46w

@FreedomMonkeyNews | Controversial I sincerely hope you are a bot trolling me, and not NAZI sympathizer. I have been to the death camps and Auschwitz. I have seen the Berlin Wall. I have read the stories of the gas Chambers, and talk to survivors in their old age.
After compiling the real evidence, you cannot objectively tell me there should not have been a war against a tough Hitler and his cronies.
The war that should have been fought, that was not, was the war against Joseph Stalin.

@zillafire101

38w

@realfreedomnews72 He was Jewish you nonce.

@julianhermanubis6800

3y↑44

I like how the whole audience is aghast except for Franz Liebkind, who is delighted to see his work on stage. LOL

@5hineepropertyofleetaemin

2y↑25

Can you imagine being so talented as to think of this and present it so brilliantly and hilariously?! Totally genius!

@TheFeralBachelor

45w↑4

Another Mel Brooks movie that is So genius it could never be made today.

@cindydott452

45w

Mel Brooks is the only man alive that could deliver the line
"Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party" and get a laugh!

@zillafire101

38w↑1

Because it doesn't hit the same. The humor could only come in the 60s

@glapou

4y↑19

Beer mug, bretzel and walkyrie. He is a total genius.
Another thing is the "Kitch über alles" tone of the whole scene.

@Diggers5

3y↑21

@airtempest8945

4y↑50

2:24 Those two people just living, especially that girl in orange, while everyone else just has their jaws hitting the floor gets me every time.

@mr.brooks8913

4y↑10

You know the one in the helmet is Franz Lincoln

@ashketchum6222

2y↑8

The one with the helmet is Franz Liebkind, who wrote the play, and the one in the orange dress is Roger DeBris, a drag queen and the play's director.

@jeanchen194

4y↑80

This has to be the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life. I'm not even kidding.

@davidpower7874

3y↑19

Probably the greatest comedy movie ever made.. Thank you Mel, saw it when it came out and have watched it dozens of times since. It just never ceases to be funny.

@cufflink44

47w

For me, it's a toss-up between this and "Life of Brian."

@Ahmedkhan8802

3y↑29

Priceless. A classic. This is the first of three times I ever lost it in a theater (laughed so hard I had to go out into the lobby out of consideration for the other audience members). Thank you, Mel Brooks.

@cufflink44

47w

What were the other two?

@Ahmedkhan8802

47w

@@cufflink44 1. The Dexter Lake Club scene in "Animal House." At the end, the fat guy, Dorfman, shouts "The Negroes took our dates!" 2. The scene in "Airplane" where the singing nun kneels before the two black passengers and sings "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" (one of them promptly throws up).

@meechisminners

3y↑33

The best part is that the song is actually good but you absolutely can't sing any of the lyrics out loud

@hankkingsley2976

3y↑1

I do just to piss people off

@CB-jw1vp

2y↑3

I played it in cod voice chat every one in the lobby left i dont know if ill make it out with my life if i said it in a public park

@dnola6887

3y↑37

I still remember the first time I saw this movie with my Dad and younger brother when it ran late night on our local PBS station. Dad had seen it years before in the theater, and was all, this is funny, you're going to love it. He was right. We all laughed so hard during this scene...and then the audience reactions came 2:22 and 3:16, and we nearly died at those points, especially the first, with the audience aghast, jaws dropped, all except Franz Liebkind.

@aattura

12y↑111

OMG-- just as hysterically funny as it was over 40 yrs ago.

@christinash2235

3y↑93

The modern version is funny. This is so much more hysterically funny. I love Old Hollywood.

@jezebeljones659

3y↑6

The modern version, even though it was made by Mel Brooks himself, couldn't hold a candle to this one.

@johnepants

3y↑9

@@jezebeljones659 I like the modern version but this one does such a better job at showing how absolutely offensive the material was and that they almost got away with their plot

@beatlesatshea

11y↑90

I enjoy how Zero LOVEs to watch the audience squirm! It's so delicious! This is much better than the new version.

@sorgundus7927

3y↑4

My guy you commented this when i was 7

@josephupton3601

1y↑5

This clip is better than the entire Disney Star Wars trilogy.

@senoj.rednaxela

1y↑5

when the camera is above the dancers and they're in the shape of a swastika 😂 still cracks me up

@Vecelchak207

3y↑14

Это гениально, не зря нашёл этот бриллиант среди старых фильмов, спасибо этой сценке и случайной рекомендации.

@andreykadun1173

Мы тоже веселились, - кино прекрасное, и даже римэйк... Но... Веселились, веселились, а у видели нынешнюю реальность нацизма, и, - прослезились...

@melonlord7443

4y↑36

when you have this song stuck in your head

@CowboyH3r0

46w↑3

WHY? Why does this song live rent-free in my head after so many years?!

@hoodatdondar2664

15w

You’re moving at a faster pace!

@marius478

13y↑43

My Dad showed this to my brothers and I when we were young. It was one of our favorite movies! Great memories. :)

@JJBM60

3y↑10

The audience reminded me of seeing Tom Hanks’ reaction when Ricky Gervais made that speech 😂😂

@ArlGrmes

2y↑6

2:23 dude in the helmet seemed to be enjoying the play.

@FloraWest

He's the playwright of "Springtime for Hitler". He likes this part but later in the movie, he gets really mad about the way Hitler is portrayed--as a hippy dude.

@leefrankel4191

4y↑29

This never gets old.

@johncrane3858

2y↑1

And it never will. This is timeless satire.

@notd0ll109

1y↑9

Mel Brooks had balls the size of a small Volkswagen

@slydoll7877

2y↑18

The best defense against tyranny is humour. Without a doubt!

@FlamingoPublications

3y↑14

This was one of my favorite scenes along with the ones with Dick Shawn. His audition was hysterical.

@joshsteinjohnston3887

4y↑7

This won the academy award for best screenplay👏👏👏👏

@JFD1220

3y↑9

Mel Brooks making this after having fought the Nazis is amazing lol

@geraldfrank1630

3y↑7

Zero & Gene & Mel together makes genius x 3! What’s not to love?! 👌👏👌👏👏

@schnozz87

3y↑18

2:22 Franz Liebkind sitting there smiling in white tie and a stahlhelm 🤣

@roberttelarket4934

48w↑3

This skit is one the greatest choreographic masterpieces!!!

@Nickthejoker2003

2y↑2

To see this in the movies back in the day was fantastic! Years later, to see it done live...PRICELESS!!! Thank you MEL BROOKS!

@crazywarriorscatfan9061

3y↑19

The Producers was a masterpiece. This part had me crying with laughter.

@fredpagniello3267

4y↑33

When I first saw this on tv as a kid decades ago, I had a laugh fest. This film is off the wall fun.

@dfa3366

38w↑1

The added gunfire sounds at the finale… the perfect touch.

@ChubbyChecker182

2y↑6

Mel Brooks was absolutely on fire for about 10 years. The Producers and Blazing Saddles are absolutely top notch comedies that are still hilarious.

@artiek1177

1y↑3

I’d throw in Young Frankenstein to the list.

@lavalampluva55401

1y↑2

History of the World: Part 1

@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45

46w↑2

Spaceballs was also pretty amazing. That movie is so quotable.

@VCT3333

45w↑1

His run from Producers to Spaceballs is real good. From then on his parodies and satires were spotty. But Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World and Spaceballs still stand up as rewatchable multiple times.

@dennisanderson3895

2y↑5

A priceless gem of ridiculous comedy! (And VERY well choreographed!)

@patuberTV

3y↑6

This is so much more understated than the musical. I'm glad he big bucks off the song versions, but this remains the gold standard.

@robertkeefer1552

4y↑28

I have this on DVD. A totally funny movie. Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel and Kenneth Mars were awesome.

@tonyarogers6997

Big big fan of Kenny Mars. Every other Franz liebken is an amateur compared to him.

@andrewtodaro2874

12w

Me too! 😂

@gabe_s_videos

1y↑5

This is my number one favorite movie of all time. As such, I've inflicted it on many people, some of whom love it, some of whom are indifferent to it.

But no matter who I show it to, EVERYONE laughs at the ONE GUY who applauds at the end and gets smacked by the rest of the audience.

@orcinus6802

1y↑4

Hollywood has never learned that when a movie is perfect to begin with, it doesn’t need to be remade!

@hoodatdondar2664

15w

Sometimes. After 1941, they never tried to remake “The Maltese Falcon”.

@johnpulaski6725

2y↑8

Mel Brooks said it best," The best way to over come hate is through laughter!"👍🇺🇸🙏♥️🤣

@remycallie

37w

Yeah, and about 27 million Russians who died defeating the Nazis.

@bigbob1699

3y↑9

The expressions of the audience is priceless .

@lethalwolf7455

2y↑4

There will never be a funnier bit than this ever…it simply cannot be topped

@jonathanmorgan1793

39w↑2

As an Historian I have always loved the sheer irony and utter bravery of Mr B.

And as for 'History of the World Part One'

Utter, utter genius.

@Wellfitaj

41w↑5

Mel Brooks is a comedic genius ❤

@davidcoleman757

47w↑4

If you only made The Producers and Blazing Saddles in your lifetime, you'd die content. Brooks at his very finest, and still hilarious after 50 years.

@bicyclist2

3y↑1

I've seen the remake a few times. But I've never seen this original version before. This is a little different than the remake. Thank you so much for the download.

@hehmtube

3y↑20

If you liked this, I would highly recommend JoJo Rabbit. Mel Brooks himself gave a big shout out to the writer/actor Taiki Waititi Loved it.

@michaelbarry1651

2y↑1

I love JoJo Rabbit! Even funnier seeing a New Zealand Maori playing Hitler...a comic genius!

@valhallaproject9560

4y↑13

Brooks is amazing. Couldn't make it today to our shame. Nor Blazing Saddles, my favorite. Sad commentary on our times.

@bretthess6376

3y↑1

Not gonna last. Piss on all leftist whiners. A new age begins in comedy and movie making.

@heraldeventsandfilms5970

@@bretthess6376 Obviously a blood relation. See you NT.

@heraldeventsandfilms5970

3y↑2

The only 'sad' aspect is you and other Fascist scrotes making such comments. The stage version has run for many years.

@WoodlandDance

50w↑2

Brilliantly choreographed by the inimitable Alan Johnson; a long time collaborator with Mel.

@cannong1728

4y↑1

OK...this just popped up on my YouTube suggestions...I'll go for it. This movie was comic genius and this scene....well....classic! One of my favorite movies...Gene Wilder , Zero Mostel....doesn't get any better

@gustajuy5983

3y↑9

This movie debuted in 1968.
Robert Kennedy and MLK were assassinated and it would be a full year before man got anywhere near landing on the moon.
Truly a timeless classic.

@lavendervideos4234

3y↑9

I have always believed from the first time I saw this, and continue to believe to this day, that this is the funniest single movie scene ever captured on film. Don't bother trying to change my mind.

@goyaassfilms4551

30w↑1

Ridicule and laughter is the best way to diminish and undermine evil. Mel Brooks was and is a genius.

@waltermanfred826

3y↑38

I am part German and I find it hilarious. And yes, I do like Hasselhorf, I find his self deprecatory wit and casual charm quite refreshing.

@charlesstuart7290

3y↑3

It's OK Bruder - can understand your like for Hasselhoff much more than the French lionization of Jerry Lewis.

@TheeRobertPhoenix

2y↑1

Which part of you found it funny? The German part or the "other" part.

@racheldobbs2028

I'm part German and part Jewish and I find this movie to be one of the most hilarious of all time--I can't stop laughing when I see it

@PreacherTHC

2y↑6

Dick Shawn is an absolute legend.

@javannagynagy6683

2y↑3

You rule mel. Such much better actor than all 2022 actors 👏

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