The Death of Adolf Hitler
by Rex Firlin, Rex Firkin
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Actor: Caroline Mortimer, Ed Devereaux, Frank Finlay, Oscar Quitak, Ray McAnallyDirector: Rex Firkin, Rex Firlin
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: BFS Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Death of Adolf Hitler
Movie Review: This could have been a High School drama production...
Summary: 1 Stars
Very recently I saw this British TV production from 1974 to compare with: Hitler: The Last Ten Days; The Bunker and Downfall (A/K/A Der Untergang). Of the four, it is by far the worst. It's hard to know where to begin. The production is cheap, has choppy edits and scenes, simplistic "wooden" portrayals, and puts forth a blatant agenda shown in contrived scenes throughtout. Hitler is one dimensional and over the top in presentation (to a much higher degree than even Sir Alec Guinness in the one star production of Hitler: The Last Ten Days); a tough feat. The acting is sadly comical. Hitler comes across as an insistent child; no flashes of the strong charismatic leader. Hitler goes around either - yelling, crying, or telling people, "...are you mad?!"
An example of the production: Dr. Goebbels and Hitler are sitting at a small table when they look at each other and then start pounding the table with their fists and yelling, "Blood, blood, blood, blood, blood!" They then laugh as if they were Dr. Evil from an Austin Powers movie.
In this version, principle players of the last days are missing. Eva scolds Adolf in the bedroom; Speer yells at Hitler and "dresses him down." Goring with a bad toupee cries like a baby at a military conference. I could go on but will just say, it pales beyond belief next to Downfall; especially if one has read more then Hugh Trevor-Roper's old book on the subject (see my review of that book) or seen the other Hitler films. It really is like watching a bad soap opera and I just wish I could give it zero stars.
At least the presentations of Hitler's last days have gotten better with every attempt. This one is by far the least accurate and worst as far as acting and production quality. Next in line is Hitler: The Last Ten Days, which is almost a parody of the facts (see my review of that film) but rates higher then this one. Then would come the HBO production, The Bunker, with Sir Anthony Hopkins. The best and most accurate film to date on the subject is the German feature film, Downfall (A/K/A Der Untergang).
Summary of The Death of Adolf Hitler
Set entirely in a replica of the Berlin bunker, this drama follows the last ten days of Hitler's life, from his birthday on April 20, 1945 until his death by desperate suicide, as his dream of a thousand-year Reich became a drugged and paranoid nightmare.Starring SFTA Best TV Actor Winner Frank Finlay (The Pianist) as Hitler and Caroline Mortimer (The Pallisers) as Eva Braun.
approx. 107 mins.
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