Downfall Portrayal of Hitler[]Appearance[]The movie portrayed Hitler as a short, stout middle-aged man with a bad temper. He often walks around the bunker wearing a gray double-breasted suit over a white shirt adorned with a black tie. He wears a gold Nazi Eagle badge on his sleeve, ...
A viewer interested in the Hitler psyche can probably find more in the mesmerizing fairly recent Downfall--it's a stunning, cogent and frightening film with Bruno Ganz in the most convincing portrayal of Germany's madman I've seen in film. It's a "10." Helpful•6 17 ...
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial: With Devin Pendas, Zora Gerda Fejes, Károly Kozma, Barnabás Bergendi. Chronicles Hitler's ascent to power, his regime's use of propaganda, censorship, and anti-Semitic policies, as well as the eventual downfall of t
“Downfall” takes place almost entirely inside the bunker beneath Berlin where Adolf Hitler and his inner circle spent their final days, and died. It ventures outside only to show the collapse of the Nazi defense of Berlin, the misery of the civilian population and the burning of the bodies...
STORY: Showtime’s ‘The Vatican’ Casts Its Pope: ‘Downfall’s’ Hitler Breen went through the list in a meeting with several MGM executives. The film needed to be set somewhat earlier, in the two-year period immediately following the end of the World War. “Thus, we will get away ...
acting, but not this one. Considering this movie was made in the 1940s, and in the middle of WW2 no less, the acting and direction are great, the story is not overly propagandized, and we get possibly the best portrayal of Hitler on screen until this year's 'Downfall' (Der Untergang...
The perspective shown on this movie portraits the life of young Germans, children's that lived in a difficult time for his country which was trying to rise as a power after a sad time of defeat, division, economy downfall, etc. Building up the German Reich required a new thinking where ...