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In the bunker.(Film)(Downfall)(Movie Review)
"IN THE BUNKER you see the real Hitler: the nihilism, the need to destroy for its own sake," argues Joachim Fest, author of Inside Hitler's Bunker--one of the sources of Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall, the first German film since G.W. Pabst's The Last Act (1955) to portray the final days of Hitler. Ironically, what makes Downfall such a powerful film is the way writer-producer Bernd Eichinger balances this against Hitler's humanity.
The problem dramatically and historically of portraying Hitler as a monster of destructiveness and evil is that you ignore the capable politician of the 1930s, his genuine kindness to his intimates, and that before the monumentally ...
- Adolf Hitler: my part in his Downfall; With its frank portrayal of Hitler,...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) March 31, 2005 700+ words
...postwar German film came up. In Downfall, the story of the last days...duly gives the world his Adolf Hitler, and he acquits himself with...being the first portrayal of Hitler at the heart of any German...portraying the human face of Hitler. And no wonder Ganz needed...
- Revealed: the young girl behind Hitler's Downfall; Traudl Junge was a...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) April 7, 2005 700+ words
...to the core. Downfall broke box-office...the film about Hitler's last days...Applying it to Hitler is almost unthinkable, yet Downfall is riddled with...kind of god." Hitler's charisma...love with him. Downfall shows the mesmeric...
- Hitler's `Downfall' likely to create a Fuhrer.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Verniere, James March 11, 2005 700+ words
...justifying lunacy, Hitler decided that his defeat...fruition. Viewers of "Downfall" cannot be sure if Hitler is deluding himself...film "Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary." It...to this film. ("Downfall" contains war-related...
- Taboo downfall; German history.(production of documentary films on Adolf...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 11, 2004 700+ words
...movie encounter with Hitler when "The Downfall", a portrayal of...strictly factual. "The Downfall" is based on the...and the memoirs of Hitler's last secretary...affection for him. "The Downfall" reveals Hitler's loss of touch...
- Hitler film's REAL Nazis; FAR-RIGHT NUTS GOT WORK AS EXTRAS ON DOWNFALL.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) March 27, 2005 700+ words
...shocking film about Hitler ever made. Downfall, out here next...to rehabilitate Hitler's image. He now hopes that Downfall will herald the...publicity for the film. Downfall, which cost pounds...make, deals with Hitler's last days in...
- Heroine who helped in Hitler's downfall dies.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) May 22, 1998 700+ words
...Armagh, she was sent from Middletown Convent at the age of 17 to France to work as a governess before the country was invaded by Hitler's forces. Vera was nearly transported to a Nazi death camp and escaped a series of selected reprisal executions. Shortly...
- M2: BOOKS: SHELF LIFE: The last days of Hitler; Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by...
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) May 14, 2002 700+ words
...must be one of the most eagerly awaited historical works ever. Taking on the end of the Third Reich, the author chronicles Hitler's last days as Germany's battered armies succumbed to the Red Army. When the Russians passed the German border, they indulged...
- Wartime comedy is right on target; THEATRE Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler My...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) November 10, 2009 700+ words
...unmistakably potty. The stage version of Adolf Hitler My Part in His Downfall is based on the first four, charting his Army experience...pair of vertical hospital beds that double up as Hitler and Goebels in seaside postcard fashion. It's...
