Downfall
by Oliver Hirschbiegel
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Actor: Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Corinna Harfouch, Juliane K?hler, Ulrich MatthesDirector: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Brand: Sony
Producer: Bernd Eichinger
Writer: Bernd Eichinger
Producer: Christine Rothe
Producer: Doris J. Heinze
Writer: Joachim Fest
Writer: Melissa M?ller
Writer: Traudl Junge
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Russian (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 156 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Downfall
Movie Review: "The German people have chosen their fate . . ."
Summary: 5 Stars
Das Boot is still my favorite war film, but Downfall is just as great. This film, which deals with the last days of Hitler and the Reich, is something that we aren't really accustomed to these days. Like Das Boot, we get to see the German P.O.V. rather than the American/British/Russian, only here it is a bit more striking because it involves the notorious dictator himself. We get to see his ruthless paranoia and isolation as Russian forces are gaining victory around Berlin. We also get to see the people around him who start to see that Nazi Germany has been greatly defeated. It's a very disturbing experience, and once the end credits roll, we are left with awe and shock.
This is a fantastic foreign film that should've won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film (or at least have a tie with The Sea Inside). Grade: A
Summary of Downfall
This takes you into hitlers bunker during the brutal & terrifying last days of the third reich. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/24/2007 Starring: Bruno Ganz Julianne Kohler Run time: 155 minutes Rating: RThe riveting subject of Downfall is nothing less than the disintegration of Adolf Hitler in mind, body, and soul. A 2005 Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film, this German historical drama stars Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire) as Hitler, whose psychic meltdown is depicted in sobering detail, suggesting a fallen, pathetic dictator on the verge on insanity, resorting to suicide (along with Eva Braun and Joseph and Magda Goebbels) as his Nazi empire burns amidst chaos in mid-1945. While staging most of the film in the claustrophobic bunker where Hitler spent his final days, director Oliver Hirschbiegel (Das Experiment) dares to show the gentler human side of der Fuehrer, as opposed to the pure embodiment of evil so familiar from many other Nazi-era dramas. This balanced portrayal does not inspire sympathy, however: We simply see the complexity of Hitler's character in the greater context of his inevitable downfall, and a more realistic (and therefore more horrifying) biographical portrait of madness on both epic and intimate scales. By ending with a chilling clip from the 2002 documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, this unforgettable film gains another dimension of sobering authenticity. --Jeff Shannon
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