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Downfall is a war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's reign of Nazi Germany in 1945.

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"Downfall" (2004) captures the moral bankruptcy of the Third Reich better than any other movie I know. It's a German-language docudrama that chronicles the final days of Hitler and his inner circle, and Bruno Ganz ("Wings of Desire") gives by far the best portrayal I've seen of the Nazi leader. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.After Hitler, the second-most important character in "Downfall" is his secretary Traudl Junge (well-played by Alexandra Maria Lara). Traudl would have been a 12-year-old girl growing up in Munich when Hitler came to power in 1933, and the film shows her at age 22 thrilled to get a job working for him. I believe she represents the typical German of that era, at first bedazzled by Der Führer, but after going through a period of mixed feelings, eventually becoming disenchanted with him.I would say that the great strength of "Downfall" is that although no character is sympathetic, all of them are multidimensional. I could relate to most of them as human beings, even as I was horrified and appalled at some of their beliefs and actions. I was forced to admit to myself that civilized, educated human beings do horrible things, leaving me with a bitter aftertaste.

"Downfall" is set primarily in and around the Reich Chancellery "Reichskanzlei" in German), the big Berlin building complex from which Hitler and his minions governed. Most of the story takes place in the spring of 1945 when the Soviet army is drawing nearer every day, and Hitler spends nearly all his time in an underground bunker connected by tunnel to the Reich Chancellery. The bunker also has what was designed to be an emergency exit that characters occasionally use to go outside into a garden.The movie has so many characters I couldn't keep track of all of them, but here's a little about some of the most important ones: Hitler's longtime mistress Eva Braun (Juliane Köhler) is with him, and they get married for about a day before committing suicide. Also, Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda show up with their six children, ages four to twelve. (The director in his commentary says Magda was "kind of the First Lady of the Third Reich" and the Goebbels stood for the "perfect Aryan German family.") And the architect Albert Speer drops in to bid Hitler goodbye and confess that he has been disobeying orders. (Speer later spent two decades in prison for his use of slave labor while he served as minister of armaments.)But in many ways, it was the slow accumulation of detail that made "Downfall" so fascinating to me. For example, there is the minor character SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein. Hitler learned that Fegelein, who was married to Eva Braun's sister, wanted to flee at a point when the war was essentially over. Even though Eva pleaded for her brother-in-law's life, Der Führer had him executed.

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Cast :

Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler
Alexandra Maria Lara as Traudl Junge

Ulrich Matthes as Joseph Goebbels
Corinna Harfouch as Magda Goebbels
Juliane Köhler as Eva Braun
Thomas Kretschmann as SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
Heino Ferch as Albert Speer
Christian Berkel as Ernst-Günther Schenck
André Hennicke as SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke
Götz Otto as Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche
Ulrich Noethen as Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler
Christian Redl as Generaloberst Alfred Jodl
Rolf Kanies as Chief of the Army General Staff Hans Krebs
Michael Mendl as General Helmuth Weidling
Matthias Habich as Prof. Dr. Werner Haase
Birgit Minichmayr as Gerda Christian
Dietrich Hollinderbäumer as Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim
Dieter Mann as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Justus von Dohnányi as Adolf Hitler's chief adjutant Wilhelm Burgdorf
Gerald Alexander Held as Walther Hewel
Thomas Thieme as Martin Bormann
Donevan Gunia as Peter Kranz
Hans Steinberg as Karl Koller
Heinrich Schmieder as Oberscharführer Rochus Misch
Igor Romanov as Obersturmbannführer Peter Högl
Igor Bubenchikov as Franz Schädle
Anna Thalbach as Hanna Reisch

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer :Joachim Fest
screenplay : Bernd Eichinger

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Downfall is a  war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's reign of Nazi Germany in 1945.