abstractrhythm Posted March 12 Report Share Posted March 12 What a great movie. B+. Bruno Ganz's performance as Hitler was spectacular.SynopsisIn the last weeks of April, 1945, just about everyone in Germany knew that they had lost the war. Everyone except Adolf Hitler, who commanded imaginary armies from his Berlin bunker.Supported by sycophants Joseph (Matthes) and Magda (Harfouch) Goebbels, as well as Heinrich Himmler (Noethen), Hitler continued to believe he could summon Germanic peoples and weaponry to annihilate the Russians, who had entered Berlin and were bombarding everyone and everything.In the final hours, he married his mistress Eva Braun (Kohler), and committed suicide, not wanting to end up hanging upside down like his pal Mussolini.Reviews "One of the most finely-crafted World War II films ever made."- James Berardinelli, REELVIEWS"Ganz seems to find exactly the right pitch: His Hitler feels real and human, yet there's nothing particularly ingratiating or sentimentalized about him. We never forget who he is."-Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POSTLanguageGermanAwards2005 - Winner - Online Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language FIlm 2004 - Nominee - Academy Best Foreign Language Film 2005 - Nominee - National Board of Review Best Foreign Language Film 2005 - Nominee - London Film Critics Association Best Actor Bruno Ganz2005 - Nominee - London Film Critics Association Best Screenplay Bernd Eichinger2005 - Nominee - Kansas City Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film 2005 - Nominee - Chicago Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film 2005 - Nominee - Online Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language FIlm 2005 - Nominee - London Film Critics Association Best Foreign Film Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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