Downfall Articles

2005 New York Film Critics Online Awards 2005 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 12, 2005   Laura Linney, Jeff Daniels, William Baldwin in The Squid and the Whale   Best Film: The Squid and the Whale Runners up (in alphabetical order): The Best of Youth Brokeback Mountain Capote The Constant Gardener Crash Good Night and Good Luck. Munich Syriana Best Foreign Language [...]

HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, A LOST EMBRACE: Oscar 2005 Best Foreign Language Film Entries Croatia, Long Dark Night, Antun Vrdoljak, director; Czech Republic, Up and Down, Jan Hrebejk, director; Denmark, The Five Obstructions, Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier, directors; Ecuador, Chronicles, Sebastián Cordero, director; Egypt, I Love Cinema, Oussama Fawzy, director; Estonia, Revolution of Pigs, Jaak Kilmi and René Reinumägik, directors; Finland, Producing Adults, [...]

Bruno Ganz in Adolf Hitler movie Downfall 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 [...]

One of history’s most hated monsters, Adolf Hitler, 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 and starring Swiss-born actor Bruno Ganz. Based on historian Joachim Fest’s best-selling Hitler biography and on the memoirs of the dictator’s last personal secretary, Traudl [...]