Downfall [Sub: Eng]
One of the most historical and brutal rulers that have come through ages, Adolf Hitler, lived ten days from hell from his 56th birthday on April 20th, 1945 to his suicide on April 30th. In this dramatic epic movie Traudl Junge, the final secretary for him recounts details about these ten days and how were his feelings.
16 August 1942, Essen, Germany
8 September 1962, Dessau, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony-Anhalt, Federal Republic of Germany]
6 January 1992, Munich, Germany
7 August 1941, Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany [now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Lubuskie, Poland]
23 August 1962, Höhenrain, Wolfratshausen, Bavaria, Germany
26 January 1962, Berlin, Germany
1953, Drieberg, German Democratic Republic
4 September 1965
12 November 1978, Bucharest, Romania
1991, Berlin, Germany
18 August 1963, Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany
3 November 1974
20 June 1941, Berlin, Germany
20 April 1944, Lünen, Germany
1 October 1975, East Berlin, East Germany
20 April 1948, Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
24 February 1969, Berlin, Germany
1965, Essen, Germany
1954, Berlin, Germany
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.
April 01, 2005
With a steely, unblinking resolve, Downfall stares into the abyss, but does not pretend to comprehend it.
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.
May 20, 2014
Provocative look at Hitler's last days is extremely violent.
April 08, 2005
May be the definitive account of Hitler's final days and the collapse of the Third Reich.
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.
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...
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 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
March 18, 2005
For emotional effect it trades less in the spectacle of ebbing power than the tragedy of power's mysterious thrall.

