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Götterdämmerung

Advantages: A really good film about Nazis
Disadvantages: Perhaps a little confusing if you don't know who everyone is

A review of the two-disk Momentum pictures DVD, currently £8 on ebay. Year: 2004 Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel Stars: Bruno Ganz More information at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/ IMDB User Rating: 8.4 Downfall, made in Germany, is a ...

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Hitler's last days

Advantages: Very believable and eeire account of Hitler's last days
Disadvantages: Subtitled

A tired and old looking man with a receding hairline and small moustache sits in a chair, contemplating the end, with a gun in one hand and poison in the other. His regime is over, his party is on the verge of collapse, and the war that he has masterminde ...

bigmike33 10.11.2006 · Read full review
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Hitler and the Nazis - its the end of the game.

Advantages: Excellent insight into Hitlers last days, superb acting and performances
Disadvantages: Subtitles.

I have long been fascinated with the Second World War and particularly the Nazis. Here was a regime that at one point controlled the whole of Europe ( except the UK ) and most of Eastern Europe and yet, though the very person that got them there, they los ...

Blackcat01 10.04.2006 · Read full review
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A look inside the last days of the 3rd Reich

Advantages: Actors are good, ambiance
Disadvantages: Perhaps a little confusing by moments

*** I'm reviewing the movie, not the DVD because the version I have is the Belgian one ;) *** Der Untergang, known also in French as La Chute and in English as Downfall, is a German movie about Hitler's last days in his Bunker in Berlin, with his gener ...

Spyke_Martin 05.07.2008 · Read full review
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The mind and mentality behind the regime ...

Advantages: Authentic and emotional portrayal of Adolf Hitler, his subjects, and the battle for Berlin
Disadvantages: Little focus on important individuals

...Realistic insight into war criminals of the past is, in film, a rarity and certainly a sensitive issue. Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall (Der Untergang) takes the most notorious and stereotypically viewed villain of the 20th century, Adolf Hitler, and does ...

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