Oliver Hirschbiegel Articles

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 [...]