Downfall

• 7.858 Drama
• 2004-09-16
• 155 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Bruno Ganz (Adolf Hitler) Alexandra Maria Lara (Traudl Junge) Corinna Harfouch (Magda Goebbels) Ulrich Matthes (Joseph Goebbels) Juliane Köhler (Eva Braun) Heino Ferch (Albert Speer) Christian Berkel (Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck) Thomas Kretschmann (SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein) Ulrich Noethen (Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler) Birgit Minichmayr (Gerda Christian)

Director:

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Writer:

Bernd Eichinger