Review:
Downfall (Der Untergang original title) is a German film, based on the last 10 days of Hitler’s life in the bunker in 1945. The film was written and produced by the German, Bernd Eichinger who based this film on several books, such as Inside Hitler’s Bunker by Joachim Fest and Until The Final Hour the memoirs of Traudl Junge. The film was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, and was released on the 16th September 2004 in Germany in its original language (German).
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel “ Der Untergang” changes its focus back and forth between the collapse of the military on the ground in Berlin and the situation in the bunker underneath it. He makes the audience not only wanting to know more about the historical background …show more content…
The movie observes the workings of the world within the bunker. And gives us an image of Hitler that shows his true colors and the state that he was in that the civilians didn’t know. Hitler played by Bruno Ganz manages to adapt to his role very effectively and really transmits to the audience his evilness, physical disability and his damaged mental health. For example, even after knowing that the war was lost Hitler continued to wage in fantasy. Smashing the battlefield maps, constantly changing the roles of the officers, moving troops that did no longer exist or even issuing orders to commanders that were dead and counted rescue from fictitious armies. Those closest to Hitler had very few choices on what to do, whether to carry on fighting, surrender or commit suicide. This had a big role in the film and was portrayed in various different scenes throughout the film. That their leader was in a terrible state did not affect the decisions of Joseph and Magda Goebbels who chose to stay with him and show their loyalty towards their Führer and commit suicide as he would. “ I do not want to live in a world without National Socialism” says Magda, and she doesn’t want her six children to live one either. In a sickening scene, she give them a potion to put them to sleep and then proceeds to insert a cyanide capsule in their …show more content…
The movie affirms her innocence, and to some extent it extends it to the German people. When Hitler refuses to express the compassion for their own civilians by saying “ if the war is lost, it is immaterial if the German people survive. I will not shed one tear for them” he then proceeds to insist that it was his war and that they failed him he shouts; betrayed him, lied to him, turned into traitors and stated that the Germans have brought their fate upon themselves. The director through the movie is sending a message mainly to the German audience saying that the German civilians were above all the main victims of this National Socialist
Downfall (Der Untergang original title) is a German film, based on the last 10 days of Hitler’s life in the bunker in 1945. The film was written and produced by the German, Bernd Eichinger who based this film on several books, such as Inside Hitler’s Bunker by Joachim Fest and Until The Final Hour the memoirs of Traudl Junge. The film was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, and was released on the 16th September 2004 in Germany in its original language (German).
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel “ Der Untergang” changes its focus back and forth between the collapse of the military on the ground in Berlin and the situation in the bunker underneath it. He makes the audience not only wanting to know more about the historical background …show more content…
The movie observes the workings of the world within the bunker. And gives us an image of Hitler that shows his true colors and the state that he was in that the civilians didn’t know. Hitler played by Bruno Ganz manages to adapt to his role very effectively and really transmits to the audience his evilness, physical disability and his damaged mental health. For example, even after knowing that the war was lost Hitler continued to wage in fantasy. Smashing the battlefield maps, constantly changing the roles of the officers, moving troops that did no longer exist or even issuing orders to commanders that were dead and counted rescue from fictitious armies. Those closest to Hitler had very few choices on what to do, whether to carry on fighting, surrender or commit suicide. This had a big role in the film and was portrayed in various different scenes throughout the film. That their leader was in a terrible state did not affect the decisions of Joseph and Magda Goebbels who chose to stay with him and show their loyalty towards their Führer and commit suicide as he would. “ I do not want to live in a world without National Socialism” says Magda, and she doesn’t want her six children to live one either. In a sickening scene, she give them a potion to put them to sleep and then proceeds to insert a cyanide capsule in their …show more content…
The movie affirms her innocence, and to some extent it extends it to the German people. When Hitler refuses to express the compassion for their own civilians by saying “ if the war is lost, it is immaterial if the German people survive. I will not shed one tear for them” he then proceeds to insist that it was his war and that they failed him he shouts; betrayed him, lied to him, turned into traitors and stated that the Germans have brought their fate upon themselves. The director through the movie is sending a message mainly to the German audience saying that the German civilians were above all the main victims of this National Socialist