One afternoon while she is out, the Gestapo come to investigate Klenzendorf arrives and helps Jojo and Elsa deceive the Gestapo regarding Elsa's identity. Among her tasks is spreading anti-Nazi messages around town. Jojo slowly becomes infatuated with the sharp, strong willed, and engaging Elsa, frequently forging love letters from her fiancé Nathan, and begins questioning his beliefs, causing Adolf Hitler to scold him over his diminishing patriotism.Īmidst several scenes where Rosie encourages Jojo to reconnect with his playful side and dance, gradually Rosie is revealed to be part of the German resistance to Nazism.
Elsa is both saddened and amused by Jojo's radical beliefs, using surreal antisemitic canards to challenge his dogmatism. Despite this, he finds himself clashing with innocence, and starts forming a friendship with her. Inspired by an offhand rant by Klenzendorf, Jojo continues to interact with her to uncover her "Jew secrets" and make a picture book titled Yoohoo Jew, so he can "expose" the Jewish people, allowing the public to easily recognize her kind. The two are left at an impasse, as the revelation of Rosie's hiding of Elsa would lead to the execution of all three of them. Jojo is both terrified of and aggressive towards Elsa and she adeptly defends herself and sets boundaries. His mother Rosie insists to the now-demoted Klenzendorf that Jojo still be included, making him promise to look after Jojo, so he is given small tasks like spreading propaganda leaflets and collecting scrap for the war effort.Īlone at home one day, Jojo discovers Elsa Korr, a teenage Jewish girl and his late sister Inge's former classmate, hiding behind the walls of Inge's attic bedroom. Pepped up by Adolf Hitler, he returns to prove himself, throwing a Stielhandgranate by himself that explodes at his feet, leaving him scarred and limping. Though a fanatic, Jojo is nicknamed "Jojo Rabbit" after refusing to kill a rabbit to prove his worthiness. The Hitler youth training camp is run by the surly and conflicted Captain Klenzendorf, an injured soldier no longer able to fight who is obviously in a loving relationship with his second in command, Freddy Finkel. Heavily indoctrinated with Nazi ideals, he has an imaginary friend named Adolf, a buffoonish Adolf Hitler. Among its numerous accolades, the film won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, while also being nominated for five other awards, including Best Picture, at the 92nd Academy Awards.ĭuring the collapse of Nazi Germany in the fictional city of Falkenheim, ten-year-old Johannes "Jojo" Betzler joins the Deutsches Jungvolk, the junior section of the Hitler Youth.
The film mostly received critical acclaim, though there were a few polarized critical reviews due to its comedic treatment of the subject of Nazism. It was chosen by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute as one of the ten best films of the year. It was later released theatrically in the United States on October 18. Jojo Rabbit had its world premiere at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2019, where it won the Grolsch People's Choice Award. Post-production included adding the visual effects, editing done by Tom Eagles, as well as a score composed by Michael Giacchino. A tight casting schedule started in 2018, and the film started principal photography in the Czech Republic in May 2018, finishing two months later. In 2012, it landed on the Black List, where it remained in a development limbo until several years later when Fox Searchlight Pictures showed interest in it. Waititi recalled the pitching process as exhausting. He rewrote the first draft, which as a rough adaptation of the dark-toned source material did not contain much comedy it was also in the rewritten version that Adolf's character was included. Waititi wrote the screenplay in 2011, a year after his mother described the premise of Caging Skies. The film also stars Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, and Alfie Allen.
He must then question his beliefs while dealing with the intervention of his imaginary friend (Waititi), a fanciful version of Adolf Hitler with a comedic stance on the politics of the war. Roman Griffin Davis portrays the title character, Johannes "Jojo" Betzler, a ten-year-old Hitler Youth member who finds out that his mother ( Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl ( Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Jojo Rabbit is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, adapted from Christine Leunens's 2008 book Caging Skies.
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