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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
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1977 · Film · 93 min
Directed by Jindřich Polák
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot.
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As usual with these "underrated" lists, it feels more like "a list of movies you might want to watch if you haven't". Think I'll start replacing "underrated" with that from now on.
Personally I have "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea"[1] and "Time after time"[2] from the 70s on my watch list. If we stretch the definition a bit, I'll include "The Lathe of Heaven"[3] (1980) and "Icarus XB 1"[4] (1963).
[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213322/
[2]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080025/
[3]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081036/
[4]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122111/
Recently published? No. Recently watched? Well, we've been having a "bad/unusual" film season all pandemic, and one of my faves is https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213322/ "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVBPNfKfgNo
Time travel and twin swap: hilarity ensues. Bill and Ted if it were made under Czechslovakian communism.
Full "ridiculous films of yesteryear" playlist which will keep you busy for a while: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxtZMqA9k8-JIy6CBRbkqUGa0-QXg4lM6
Regarding the time paradoxes, the second part of your comment reminded me of a very interesting (and good) 1977 Czech film called "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea"[0], in which some Nazis survive WWII. They get ahold of some anti-aging pills, and after centuries, hijack a time machine back to World War II in order to give Hitler the bomb, reversing the course of the war. However, their efforts are repeatedly stymied by comical time paradoxes.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_I'll_Wake_Up_and_Scald_Myself_with_Tea