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WEEK AHEAD: Yet more insight into Hitler's life
by Chris Osuh7/ 4/2005
EVIL is fine food for documentary film makers.
Few people match Adolf Hitler when it comes to evil, so it stands
to reason there should be an excess of information about the small
man with the dodgy moustache.
Within the last few years, I've seen programmes and read articles
about Hitler's diet, his drug addictions, his sexual peccadilloes,
his use of PR, hypnotism and graphic design, his testicles, his
quest for the Holy Grail, his obsession with Tibetans, the occult
and men's bottoms, his bloodline, bizarre eugenics policies and
even his relationship with the philosopher Wittgenstein, who some
claim inspired Hitler's hatred for Jewish people because he
outperformed him at school.
The latest show to dine out on Hitler is
Last Days of the
Nazis, (Monday, Sky One) which does exactly what it says
on the tin, using archive film, eyewitness accounts and
reconstructions, following the release of controversial German film
Downfall, which dramatises those final moments in the bunker.
As anybody who watches Kung Fu movies knows, senior citizens in
South East Asia are in great shape - doubly hard, agile, wise, with
very long eyebrows. For those that aren't familiar with the oeuvre,
Golden Years, (Monday, BBC2) aims to teach you
about China's "grey boom", the result of a rapidly aging
population. The programme confirms that China's elderly are not
interested in bingo and bus passes, in fact, truth is stranger than
Hong Kong cinema. Viewers are introduced to Jin Yingzi, a stylish
68-year-old whose hobbies include breakdancing. Now, 15 years after
giving up work for good, the supergran is hoping to win China's
first beauty contest for the elderly.
The Bill (ITV1, Tuesday and Wednesday) is a fine
show. Underneath its ridiculously convoluted plots there is a
commitment to realism, at least sometimes, and it's a great show
for games of "spot the soap actor". This week Manson gets set up in
a typically elaborate storyline involving a dead body.
Real police work, as shown by shows like
Street Crime
UK, (Bravo, Wednesday), is often just as entertaining as
The Bill's wilder moments.
I, personally, could never tire of watching drunken, post-closing
time brawls in humdrum towns.
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