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Writer-director Taika Waititi balances comedic and dark elements in Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit
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Movie still from Jojo Rabbit.
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LOS ANGELES - How do you make a comedy about children, Hitler and the Holocaust?
Writer-director Taika Waititi walked that tightrope with his satirical comedy-drama Jojo Rabbit - the story of Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis), a lonely 10-year-old boy who lives in Nazi Germany and idolises its leader, Adolf Hitler.


