Uncle at ABCwatch asks:

But why are political films always left-wing caricatures?

But can you imagine the uproar if someone made a film in which the hero/ine was expected to retain our sympathy while admitting to idolatory of Adolph Hitler, as the sainted Frida Kahlo, also the subject of a recent depiction, worshipped the monstrous Joseph Stalin? Or even cordial relations with Albert Speer?

Fascists! Beyond salvation by Art. Kiss that investment goodbye.

Two examples of recent films with sympathetic treatment of fascist characters are The English Patient and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

It’s true that, for both good and bad reasons, Hitler has come to be regarded as a uniquely evil historical character. But Speer has largely got away with passing himself off as a good guy. And the other fascist leaders (Mussolini, Franco, Pavelic etc) are generally regarded as being less morally objectionable than Stalin. This means that (allegedly) misguided sympathisers with these fascists can get the same kind of sympathetic treatment as (allegedly) misguided believers in Stalin.