Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)

The greatest movie ever!

Excellent, smart action film.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

...I'll watch this film again. A side-splitting comedy with great puns, highly artistic visuals, and a plot that is a marvelous joke in itself.Much funnier than you'd ever expect from a movie that starts with a multiplied "Heil Hitler" line, this flick features a band of aging Nazi émigrés that somewhere in the future decide to travel back in time to give a hydrogen A-bomb to Hitler. The shambolic plot is held together by some of the best Czech acting of the decade (all of the main protagonists were in fact extremely accomplished stage and movie actors) and a never-ending flow of visual jokes and puns. When the Plan goes horribly, horribly wrong, threatening to choke the future with countless clones of not-so-retired Nazis, the paradoxes are mostly solved by exterminating either the copies or the originals ("Now, I'm going to kill myself"). The moment where the chief Nazi opens his portable A-bomb suitcase in the presence of Hitler, only to discover that the box now contains lingerie, is one of the greatest comedy moments in Czech cinematography. I remember watching the conspirators' faces on slow-mo a dozen times again, and again, and I just couldn't stop laughing.All the while, this movie has a touch of something greater than mere parody of time travel. As it is one of the last heirs of the inventive Czech New Wave, the movie's crew included many extremely skilled filmmakers, including T. Pistek, the maker of Amadeus' Oscar-awarded costumes.Overall, if you think you can stand European cinematography, and don't require your average movie to feature Brad Pitt clones, you probably won't be disappointed. This is one of the 20-or-so Czech productions that I'd rank as world quality movies. See the quotes for some of the innumerable cool lines.

Like most of the other commentators here I saw this film as part of a BBC2 foreign film season in I think the very early 80s. I vaguely remember the next two in the series but this one has stuck in my mind ever since and I would dearly love to see it again. I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to describe it to friends! Twins (one dominated by the other), unrequited love, time travel, all good comedic potential - but add in Hitler and make sure that no element is overplayed and you have something quite unusual. The interplay between the twins in particular is beautifully handled. A touch of Groundhog Day, a touch of Back to the Future, a touch of Blackadder - sheer genius. Do you think that anyone will ever show it on TV again?

I too saw this as a young teenager one night on BBC2 in the very early eighties. Over twenty years later I still remember it. I would love to see it again. All I can remember is that it involved time travel, eastern Europe (aka the Communist countries), a balcony, a sequence of going back to the same moment and place in time repeatedly and a cup of tea getting spilled on someones hand (perhaps more than once).It was very clever, very funny and had a happy ending.That night on BBC2 must have been the only time it was ever shown to a wide audience. I'm amazed that it seems never to have been screened again. Is it because it only appealed to 13 year-olds? There are things I've grown tired of since that age but, right now, there is nothing that I recall having completely changed my mind over. So I would probably still love it!Find it! Watch it! Again!

Amazing How can you be a pilot of a very special flight, go back in time to Nazi Germany, scald yourself with tea and still win the girl??? I saw this film in 1978 on British TV .... I recorded then lost it.... its a great film...what is is with Czech directors? Even as we speak I am watching Conspirators Of Pleasure...just as funny 9 out of 10