But although they are brothers, due to the fact that the family split up in that year, the two brothers have always been secretly competing against each other. In addition, the two countries are separated by a narrow strip of water, so the daily stumbling and stumbling are always indispensable. In history, there have been many wars between the two countries, and each other has won and lost. One of the most famous is the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. In that war, France was defeated by Germany, and the grievances between the two countries reached a peak, which was buried in the first World War mentioned in the film. Foreshadowed.
Twenty years have passed in a hurry, when the pointer of time points to 1936, everything has already changed. George and Beckman, the former rivals, are no longer soaring in the blue sky. George became an excellent boxing trainer after his discharge from the military. Beckmann continued his military career as a senior German general. No one thought that the old friends who had not seen each other for 20 years would be reunited for a grand event, which was the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Now when it comes to the Berlin Olympics, many people will think of two people, one of them is the focus on the field, and the other is the man of influence outside the field. The centerpiece of the arena is American track and field athlete Jesse Owens. Owens, who was born in a poor family in the rural South of the United States in 1913, showed extraordinary athletic talent since he was a child. However, because of his skin color, he has always been discriminated against in the country. However, the tenacious Owens did not give up because of this, but instead trained harder. Before the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he had become the world's leading sprinter at the time. Berlin in 1936 was destined to become the stage for the outbreak of this "black lightning". In this Olympic Games, Owens won four gold medals in one fell swoop and became the brightest star in the Berlin night sky. What is particularly impressive is that in the long jump competition, Luz Lang, the host of Owenslick, who is a descendant of black slaves, made the "Aryan racial superiority theory" that permeated throughout the Olympic Games into an uncompromising one. joke.
Owens shines brightly on the field, and perhaps the most vexed is Hitler, the real mastermind behind the event. Speaking of Hitler, he also participated in the fierce battle that year. At the beginning of "King of Kings", his figure once flashed by, but he was just an unknown pawn in the German army at that time. . In 1914, at the age of 25, Hitler joined the 16th Regiment of the Bavarian Infantry of the German Army as a volunteer and served as the regiment's messenger. This war failed to make him, who was unknown before, become famous, but it allowed Hitler to see another way of life, that is, politics. In 1922, Hitler established the notorious Nazi Party in Munich, and has since embarked on his fascist road. After ten years of hard work, in 1933, Hitler finally became Chancellor of Germany, holding real power and becoming the number one figure in the country. After taking office, Hitler vigorously promoted his anti-Semitic, anti-Communist, and dictatorial ideas, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics became the best stage for him to advocate his political views. In order to better show off, Hitler even hired Riefenstahl, the most famous female director in Germany at the time, to shoot the documentary "Olympia" for the Olympic Games. Although this documentary was shot for the purpose of praising Hitler, it truly recorded the whole picture of the event and became a rare video material for later generations. In "The King of Kings", the part explaining the Berlin Olympics uses the video clips from "Olympia" that year.
On the train leading his team to the Berlin competition, George stumbles upon a Jewish orphan named Simon. Simon's parents died when he was young, and this time he went to Berlin to join his grandparents. Naturally warmhearted, George decides to help this lovely little fellow. Unexpectedly, when they came to Berlin, a storm was waiting for them...
Since he became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and held real power in the country, Hitler's ambition to conquer the whole of Europe and even the whole world has also expanded day by day. Among the many heinous crimes Hitler committed during his life, none is more notorious than his policy of genocide against the Jews. In the same year that Hitler became head of Germany, the Nazi government dismissed all Jewish civil servants and eliminated Jewish members deemed inferior from the army, police and judiciary. After 1935, official documents such as the Nuremberg Act successively deprived Jews of their basic rights as German nationals. By 1938, Nazi Germany had banned Jews from most occupations. The social status of the Jews, who once held the lifeline of Germany's economy, has dropped to the lowest point. Hitler's attack on the Jews was not only aimed at ordinary people. Many Jewish celebrities, including the famous physicist Albert Einstein and the famous writer Zweig, were persecuted to varying degrees at that time, so much so that they were forced to leave their hometowns. . After the start of World War II, Hitler openly carried out a large-scale cleansing of Jews. According to statistics, Nazi Germany massacred 6 million Jews during World War II, accounting for about two-fifths of the total number of Jews in the world at that time. 1.1 million Jews were slaughtered at the Swithin concentration camp. Among these people, there are many children of the same age as Simon in the film. Unfortunately, these imprisoned children do not have the luck of Simon, let alone meet an enthusiastic person like George. At the gunpoint of the Nazis, or in the gas chambers of the concentration camps.
With George's help, Simon and his family are reunited as scheduled. However, in such a severe situation, it is no longer possible to continue to stay in Germany, and escape is the only way. Just when George was at a loss as to how to escape, his sworn enemy Beckman appeared to help him solve this problem. Beckmann used his identity as a German officer to successfully help the Simon family get on a car leaving Germany. Friends reunited, difficulties were overcome, and everything seemed to be solved perfectly, but the story is far from over...
The destination for George and Simon's family is Austria, which is also Hitler's home country. However, just as the so-called fate did not go as planned, just as George and his party were about to set foot on Austrian territory, a shocking accident caught them in Hitler's mountain villa on the German-Austrian border. And they were greeted by Hitler's sister Angela.
The French are world-famous for their romantic nature, but the French are also world-famous for their vitriol. In the face of Hitler, who had beaten himself to the ground, "The King of Kings" was a slap in the face. Angela in the film is not only ugly, but more interesting is that the actor who plays her is actually the same person as Hitler. However, ridicule is ridicule. In terms of basic historical facts, this film does not lie at all. When he was young, Hitler did have a crush on his sister Angela, who was six years older than him. Unfortunately, Angela later married a small civil servant. Later, after Hitler came to power, he did indeed take Angela, who lost his father, to his mountain villa as a housekeeper. But Angela chose to marry an architecture professor in 1936. Frustrated, Hitler could only transfer his love for his sister to his niece, so that he and Angela's daughter Gilly later developed an incestuous relationship. Of course, this shit is a later story.
On the radio, George heard the good news of his disciple Zougui, and he also successfully escaped with the Simon family and escaped safely from Hitler's lair. Twenty years ago, as a pilot, he proved himself to be king in the sky. Twenty years later, as a boxing coach, he not only won the Olympic championship with his disciples, but also humiliated the mighty Hitler by the way. In this case, dare to say that this man with a big nose is not worthy of the title of king of kings?
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