Downfall (2004)
Rating: 7.9/10
Duration: 155 min
Director(s): Oliver Hirschbiegel,
Description:
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Cast
- Thomas Kretschmann as SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
- Alexandra Maria Lara as Traudl Junge
- Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler
- Rolf Kanies as General der Infanterie Hans Krebs
- Christian Berkel as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
- Justus von Dohnányi as General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf
- Corinna Harfouch as Magda Goebbels
- Ulrich Matthes as Joseph Goebbels
- Juliane Köhler as Eva Braun
- Heino Ferch as Albert Speer
- Ulrich Noethen as Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler
- Birgit Minichmayr as Gerda Christian
- Michael Mendl as General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling
- André Hennicke as SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke
- Christian Redl as Generaloberst Alfred Jodl