Adolf Hitler Articles
Albert Brooks Oscar Snub Irks Russell Crowe, Adolf Hitler
Who would have have guessed that two of Albert Brooks' most die-hard fans are the unlikely pair of Russell Crowe and Adolf Hitler. And they're both mad as hell at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members who have bypassed Brooks in the Best Supporting Actor category for his critically acclaimed performance as a nasty gangster in Nicolas Winding Refn's thriller Drive. On [...]
DOWNFALL Review – Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Köhler d: Oliver Hirschbiegel
DER UNTERGANG / DOWNFALL (2004) Direction: Oliver Hirschbiegel Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Köhler, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Heino Ferch, Thomas Kretschmann Screenplay: Bernd Eichinger; from Joachim Fest's book Untergang: Hitler und das Ende des Dritten Reiches / Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich and Traudl Junge and Melissa Müller's Bis zur letzten Stunde / Until the Final Hour: [...]
Hitler Movie DOWNFALL: Box-Office Hit in Germany
This past weekend, 480,000 filmgoers across Germany lined up to get tickets for the €13.5 million (US$16.5 million) German-made Der Untergang / Downfall, Oliver Hirschbiegel's controversial World War II drama depicting Adolf Hitler's last 12 days in his underground bunker. The figures for Downfall were deemed particularly impressive since the nearly three-hour-long production only allowed two showings per evening. Bruno Ganz, the angel who becomes [...]
DOWNFALL Movie Accused of Humanizing Hitler
One of history's most hated monsters has undergone a humanizing makeover in the German motion picture Der Untergang: Hitler und das Ende des 3. Reiches (Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. Based on historian Joachim Fest's best-selling Adolf Hitler biography and on the memoirs of the dictator's last personal secretary, Traudl Junge, Downfall chronicles the last days of [...]