Downfall [Sub: Eng]
Through a series of dramatic and exciting events, this epic dramatic story takes after Traudl Junge, the last secretary for Adolf Hitler, the Nazi despot who crushed numerous urban areas and individuals. Traudl in this film describes by points of interest the last ten days in his life from his 56th birthday on April twentieth, 1945 to his suicide on April 30th.
22 January 1951, Augsburg, Bavaria, West Germany
18 November 1959, Munich, Germany
1991, Berlin, Germany
19 December 1963, Innsbruck, Austria
14 August 1960, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
1956, Simferopol, RSFSR, USSR
19 November 1981, Omsk, Omskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
February 28, 2008
What an act of bravery it was to make Downfall.
March 17, 2005
Hirschbiegel and Ganz are not apologizing for Nazism. They are trying to come to terms with the fact that the evils of Nazism were invented and carried out by human beings.
April 08, 2005
May be the definitive account of Hitler's final days and the collapse of the Third Reich.
June 29, 2013
...an unflinching, hard, relentlessly honest movie that refuses to ask questions that have easy answers. It is also brilliantly acted, written and focused...
March 18, 2005
Viewed through a North American lens, the movie itself seems more familiar than fascinating, more innocuous than inflammatory, and, at 21/2 hours, more tedious than anything else.
September 25, 2010
"Downfall" isn't about commuting history's sentence for the Nazis, but heeding its warning - a gruesome, sustained-tension lesson about informed politics and whether those who left evil to its own devices could arrive at a place of complicit guilt.
March 14, 2005
In a remarkable performance, perhaps the most impressive portrait of Hitler ever captured on film, Bruno Ganz plays Hitler as delusional, hateful and cruel man -- but also human.
July 21, 2009
It's reach exceeds its grasp; nonetheless, a compelling study of Hitler's last days.
March 18, 2005
For emotional effect it trades less in the spectacle of ebbing power than the tragedy of power's mysterious thrall.
April 18, 2009
As the first German-made film about Hitler's ruination since G.W. Pabst's "Der Letzte Akt" ("The Last Act" - 1956) "Downfall" is a stunning cinematic achievement that illuminates minutiae about the last 10 days of the nefarious German leader who won the h
May 20, 2014
Provocative look at Hitler's last days is extremely violent.
April 01, 2005
With a steely, unblinking resolve, Downfall stares into the abyss, but does not pretend to comprehend it.

