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.
20 April 1944, Lünen, Germany
27 June 1958, St. Stefan ob Stainz, Styria, Austria
25 August 1982, Hamburg, Germany
21 September 1958, Steinheidel-Erlabrunn, German Democratic Republic
12 June 1942, USSR
20 April 1948, Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
19 December 1963, Innsbruck, Austria
14 February 1970, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
4 March 1995, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
13 May 1970, Halle an der Saale, German Democratic Republic
20 December 1985, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
1950
14 August 1960, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
18 November 1959, Munich, Germany
12 January 1940, Danzig, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]
16 December 1961, East Berlin, East Germany
3 November 1974
20 February 1978, Berlin, Germany
23 July 1953, Halle, German Democratic Republic
1 June 1973, East Berlin, East Germany
6 January 1992, Munich, Germany
19 October 1958, Munich, Germany
July 21, 2009
It's reach exceeds its grasp; nonetheless, a compelling study of Hitler's last days.
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
February 28, 2008
What an act of bravery it was to make Downfall.
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
For emotional effect it trades less in the spectacle of ebbing power than the tragedy of power's mysterious thrall.
May 20, 2014
Provocative look at Hitler's last days is extremely violent.
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 01, 2005
With a steely, unblinking resolve, Downfall stares into the abyss, but does not pretend to comprehend it.
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 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.
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.
April 08, 2005
May be the definitive account of Hitler's final days and the collapse of the Third Reich.

