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Downfall (2004)

Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel

Drama

Most recently watched by lordofthemovies, schofizzy, leiabox

Overview

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

Rated R | Length 155 minutes

Actors

Bruno Ganz | Alexandra Maria Lara | Corinna Harfouch | Ulrich Matthes | Juliane Köhler | Heino Ferch | Christian Berkel | Thomas Kretschmann | Ulrich Noethen | Birgit Minichmayr | Rolf Kanies | Justus von Dohnányi | Michael Mendl | André Hennicke | Christian Redl | Götz Otto | Thomas Limpinsel | Thomas Thieme | Donevan Gunia | Matthias Habich | Alexander Held | Devid Striesow | Dieter Mann | Bettina Redlich | Heinrich Schmieder | Anna Thalbach | Dietrich Hollinderbäumer | Ulrike Krumbiegel | Karl Kranzkowski | Thorsten Krohn | Jürgen Tonkel | Fabian Busch | Christian Hoening | Dirk Borchardt | Elizaveta Boyarskaya | Michael Brandner | Igor Bubenchikov | Martin Butzke | Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov | Mathias Gnädinger | Bohdan Graczyk | Norbert Heckner | Enno Hesse | Julia Jentsch | Michael Kind | Elisabeth von Koch | Konstantin Lukashov | Stefan Mehren | Katerina Poladjan | Tanja Schleiff | Christian Schmidt | August Schmölzer | Jurij Schrader | Mariya Semenova | Klaus-Jürgen Steinmann | Veit Stübner | Oliver Stritzel | Vsevolod Tsurilo | Henning Peker | Dieter Rupp | Andrey Blagoslovensky | Valeriy Solomakhin | Igor Sergeev

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Viewing Notes

I’m a huge history buff and have read boatloads of books on both of the World Wars, so most of the material covered here was known to me. Despite that, Downfall’s material managed to anger and appall me. I guess one never gets used to the senseless slaughter of so many people, including the German civilians, during World War II.

Hats off to Oliver Hirschbiegel for tackling such a sensitive subject with a non-judgmental eye. The movie does a great job of letting the horror of the war, and the insanity of Hitler, bubble to the surface all on its own.

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