Downfall

Name: Downfall
Genre: Biography, War, Drama
Released: 2004
Duration: 156 min
Rating: 4.8
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Juliane Köhler, Ulrich Matthes

Oliver Hirschbiegel20042h 36mBiography, War, Drama

Why we chose it

Bruno Ganz built his Hitler on a secret recording for this Oscar-nominated film, which has become the iconic picture of a dictator’s fall. For twelve days in a bunker beneath Berlin he keeps sending orders to armies that no longer exist, and down there he won’t admit that it’s over.

Synopsis

Traudl Junge lands the job of her dreams in 1942, when she becomes Hitler’s secretary at the height of his power. Three years later, the empire has shrunk to a bunker beneath the garden. Above them the Red Army takes Berlin street by street, while underground Hitler rages at traitors who exist only in his head.