| Downfall | |
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| 1 Nomination | |
| Year | 2004 |
| Director | Oliver Hirschbiegel |
| Writer | Bernd Eichinger |
| Starring | Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Thomas Kretschmann |
| 77th Academy Awards | |
Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004 German war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. The film's screenplay was written by Bernd Eichinger, and based upon the books "Inside Hitler's Bunker", by historian Joachim Fest; "Until the Final Hour", the memoirs of Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's secretaries (co-written with Melissa Müller); Albert Speer's memoirs, "Inside the Third Reich"; "Hitler's Last Days: An Eye–Witness Account", by Gerhardt Boldt; "Das Notlazarett Unter Der Reichskanzlei: Ein Arzt Erlebt Hitlers Ende in Berlin" by Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck; and, Siegfried Knappe's memoirs, "Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936–1949".
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In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. 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. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, 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.
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