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Downfall
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404987609
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404987606
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Subtitled), German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: D11545D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: August 02, 2005
Running Time: 155 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Editorial Review:
The riveting subject of Downfall is nothing less than the disintegration of Adolf Hitler in mind, body, and soul. A 2005 Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film, this German historical drama stars Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire) as Hitler, whose psychic meltdown is depicted in sobering detail, suggesting a fallen, pathetic dictator on the verge on insanity, resorting to suicide (along with Eva Braun and Joseph and Magda Goebbels) as his Nazi empire burns amidst chaos in mid-1945. While staging most of the film in the claustrophobic bunker where Hitler spent his final days, director Oliver Hirschbiegel (Das Experiment) dares to show the gentler human side of der Fuehrer, as opposed to the pure embodiment of evil so familiar from many other Nazi-era dramas. This balanced portrayal does not inspire sympathy, however: We simply see the complexity of Hitler's character in the greater context of his inevitable downfall, and a more realistic (and therefore more horrifying) biographical portrait of madness on both epic and intimate scales. By ending with a chilling clip from the 2002 documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, this unforgettable film gains another dimension of sobering authenticity. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fuhrer Trapped In Refrigerator Eats Own Foot
This is an important film. It had to be done: the fascinating and terrible story of the final moments of the Third Reich, told by Germans as a kind of artistic therapy. Major pluses include the boldly dispassionate approach- humanizing historical figures who aren't generally seen as human; the non-hysterical examination of a highly emotional subject; the great historical accuracy and attention to detail, and perhaps most of all, the showcase of excellent performances, beginning with the phenomenal ... Read More
Rating: - Engaging, Fantastic Story of Hitler's Fall
I never knew Hitler was a vegetarian, but that is just the tip of the iceberg of information this film delivers in a finely acted and superb screenplay of Hilter's last days in his bunker.
I wouldn't say this is on the top tier of war films(Das Boot, Schindler's List), but it does deliver a riveting account from one of Hitler's secretaries, as one of histories worst war criminals sinks into his own madness of hell.
Recommended for more maturer audiences(subtitles, and a little long in some ... Read More
Rating:  - Realistic portrayal of the final days in the bunker.
English subtitles with German language dialog give this film an audiophonic realism. Combined with the excellent acting by this German cast, and one gets the "feeling" of watching history play out before your eyes.
I was torn between a superb and well acted glimpse of history and my emotions of unrelentless hatred towards these criminals, cowards and drug addicts responsible for snuffing out the lives of countless millions.
Appropriate for older audiences, probably 18 +. Not appropriate for ... Read More
Rating: - Best Hitler film ever?
n the annals of film, the greatest screen portrayal of an evil world leader was undoubtedly Anthony Hopkins' 1995 turn as President Richard M. Nixon in Oliver Stone's Nixon. Within five to ten minutes of one's first glimpse of Hopkins- a Brit who looked and sounded nothing like the 37th American President, one almost forgets what the real Nixon looked like. But, now there's a contender who could knock Hopkins off his perch- or at least give him a good fight, and that is Bruno Ganz's turn as Adolf Hitler in ... Read More
Rating: - Mass human destruction was used as Hitler's dream to rule..........He wakes up in time to die. Wow!
I felt I was really there and the German actors where great and would not have done it any other way.
Mass human destruction was used as Hitler's dream to rule..........He wakes up in time to die. Wow!
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