My Best Enemy

“My Best Enemy” is a darkly humorous heist film set in Nazi-occupied Austria. The SS gets word that a Jewish owned art gallery has acquired sketch by Michelangelo. This will make the perfect state gift when Il Duce comes to visit in a few weeks time. The family is arrested, sent to camps and the sketch is confiscated. The Gallery owner’s son [Moritz Bleibtrau] schemes for their freedom when it turns out that the confiscated drawing is one of several copies his father had made as a precaution. His childhood friend, their housekeeper’s son, has donned the Nazi uniform to get the upper hand on his friend and confiscate his fiancé as well. The ensuing intrigues are clever and often funny but the film never loses focus on the evil behind the circumstances.