Toward the end of “Downfall,” an account of the final days of Germany’s Third Reich, Hitler’s stenographer Traudl Junge comes face to face with a Russian soldier, a member of the Russian force about ...
“Downfall” takes place almost entirely inside the bunker beneath Berlin where Adolf Hitler and his inner circle spent their final days, and died. It ventures outside only to show the collapse of the ...
Ticket lines for movies are rare in Israel, and rarer still for features that have already been showing for five weeks, and unprecedented for a German production centered on the character of Adolf ...
"DOWNFALL" IS intriguing, oddly banal and ultimately deflating: a movie that revisits the final in-the-bunker days of genocidal killer Adolph Hitler (Bruno Ganz), his sweet dog Blondi and all those ...
An excerpt from Im toten Winkel (2002) commences Downfall’s descent into the final ten days of Adolf Hitler’s inexorable rule over Germany, in which the actual Traudl Junge expresses shame for once ...