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Der Untergang (2004) -- Traudl Junge (Lara), the final secretary for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
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Writers:
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Release Date:
16 September 2004 (Germany) more
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April 1945, a nation awaits its...
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Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 15 wins & 13 nominations more
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This movie has physically touched me! ....wow. more (469 total)

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Also Known As:
Downfall (UK) (USA)
Der Untergang - Hitler und das Ende des 3. Reichs (Germany) (working title)
La caduta - Gli ultimi giorni di Hitler (Italy)
The Downfall (literal English title)
The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich (USA)
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Rated R for strong violence, disturbing images and some nudity.
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156 min | 178 min (extended version)
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In the movie, Magda Goebbels is seen writing a letter to her son, Harald Quandt, (there is a picture of him in front of her), from a previous marriage. He was her only child to survive the war. In 1944, as a Lieutenant in the Luftwaffe, he was injured and captured by the Allies, in Italy. more
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Miscellaneous: Götz Otto is credited with portraying SS Hauptsturmführer Otto Günsche, when in reality Günsche was a SS Sturmbannführer. Wardrobe got it right however as his uniform has the correct collar and shoulder insignia. more
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[first lines]
Traudl Junge: I've got the feeling that I should be angry with this child, this young and oblivious girl. Or that I'm not allowed to forgive her for not seeing the nature of that monster. That she didn't realise what she was doing. And mostly because I've gone so obliviously...
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218 out of 268 people found the following comment useful.
This movie has physically touched me! ....wow., 28 February 2005
10/10
Author: Shc-Shc from London

I don't know what to say about this film. I am almost speechless.

First of all, this is almost PERFECT cinema, beautifully shot, acted, lit, staged and on and on. BUt it is also the only film in recent memory that had an almost physical impact on me. I left feeling disoriented and very disquieted, a feeling that lasted for several hours.

What we have here is an exercise in patience. A film that allows us to watch the disintegration of the largest empire in modern history, from the inside out. Beginning after the start of the siege of Berlin, the bulk of the film takes place in the cramped bunkers below the city, where Hitler and his officers are trapped like rats on a sinking ship, aware of their fate, but not smart enough, not willing enough, or maybe incapable of escaping the fates they created for themselves.

This is a daring, brilliant film with a virtuoso performance by Bruno Ganz as Hitler. He shows us that beneath the genocidal, world changing shell of hatred that the globe knew, Hitler was still that petty, hatefilled, failed art-student that he was before becoming the greatest villain in history.

awesome, awesome, awesome movie.

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