Apr 29th
Downfall**
(Ger/Austria/Russia 2004)
The last days of the Third Reich in WWII, mainly from the perspectives of a Berlin SS doctor and Hitler's personal secretary Traudl Junge.
Probably the definitive account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, an overdue German catharsis of the subject (previously covered in Der Letzte Akt in 1955), conveying as much of the horror of Hitler's decaying empire as well as his own flawed humanity amidst the monster. It drags only in its later stages.
Written/Produced by: Bernd Eichinger, based on books by Jachim Fest, Traudl Junge and Melissa Muller.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel.
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian Berkel, Juliane Kohler (as Eva Braun), Ulrich Mathes, Corinna Harfouch, Heino Ferch, Matthias Habich, Thomas Kretschmann.
Photography: Rainer Klausman.
Music: Stephen Zacharias.
Downfall**
(Ger/Austria/Russia 2004)
The last days of the Third Reich in WWII, mainly from the perspectives of a Berlin SS doctor and Hitler's personal secretary Traudl Junge.
Probably the definitive account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, an overdue German catharsis of the subject (previously covered in Der Letzte Akt in 1955), conveying as much of the horror of Hitler's decaying empire as well as his own flawed humanity amidst the monster. It drags only in its later stages.
Written/Produced by: Bernd Eichinger, based on books by Jachim Fest, Traudl Junge and Melissa Muller.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel.
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian Berkel, Juliane Kohler (as Eva Braun), Ulrich Mathes, Corinna Harfouch, Heino Ferch, Matthias Habich, Thomas Kretschmann.
Photography: Rainer Klausman.
Music: Stephen Zacharias.
Labels: History, War, World Cinema
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