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Downfall (2004),
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel, rated
R for strong
violence, disturbing images, some nudity
April
1945, a nation awaits its... downfall
  Starring:
Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Corinna Harfouch, Juliane
Köhler, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel, Matthias Habich, Thomas Kretschmann,
Michael Mendl
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★★☆
- near perfect
"Who do you think you
are to dare disobey an order I give? So this is what it has come
to! The military has been lying to me. Everybody has been lying
to me, even the SS! Our generals are just a bunch of
contemptible, disloyal cowards" -
Adolf Hitler
Why watch this? This
is an excellent deep-dive into Adolph Hitler.
Plot Summary: This
story depicts the final, frantic days of the Third Reich from
inside Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker in April 1945 as Soviet
forces close in. Told partly through the eyes of his secretary,
Traudl Junge, the film portrays a delusional Hitler commanding
non-existent armies while his inner circle begins to unravel.
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Dad's Preview:
This intense, historically accurate cinematic essay highlights
the intense personal conflicts, loyalty, and ultimate
desperation of Nazi leadership facing its inevitable
destruction. All this is over-lorded by the malignant narcissist
Adolph Hitler. Although Germans were uneasy with the film's
humanization of Der Führer, it does show the man's descent
into utter madness, eventually becoming so delusional that he
castigated the very loyalists who implemented his horrible
order. Bruno Ganz's performance is incredible - it must have
been exhausting to enter that mind. This history film is
one you must see if you want to better understand the architect
of the greatest war crimes of our time. |
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Bernd
Eichinger; Constantin Film, Momentum Pictures |
