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Downfall (2005)
Runtime: 2 hrs 36 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Kohler, Thomas Kretschmann, Ulrich Matthes
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 8, 2005
DVD Features:
- Anamorphic - 1.78
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - German
- Subtitles - English - Closed Captioning
- Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Featurette - Making-of
- Interviews - Cast and Crew
Reviews
Bruno Ganz ... is terrific as Hitler, fully depicting his physical frailties ... and brilliantly capturing his speech patterns but never allowing the performance to become a caricature.
Downfall doesn't let us down when it comes to telling what happened, but it has trouble coming up with how or why.
Features a staggeringly creepy performance by Bruno Ganz, whose Hitler is both a raving psychotic and a beaten, melancholic man.
Downfall is an admirably matter-of-fact history lesson of a movie, but next to real footage of real people with real memories of those days, it pales by comparison.
An important historical movie about the last days of the Third Reich.
Es un atinado recordatorio de que, como humanidad, debimos haber aprendido la lección, pues de otra forma estamos condenados a repetir la historia, para bien o para mal.
The subject matter itself is the fallback support, which is good enough for its purposes, though it could've benefited from a more steered momentum.
La película es una nueva y bienvenida mirada hacia eventos históricos que nos han sido contados prácticamente en exclusiva desde el bando ganador.
There have been plenty of World War II films over the years, but none delivers as intimate a portrait of German dictator Adolf Hitler and his comrades.
...succeeds, for the most part, in painstakingly depicting who did what when, but beyond that, it is a missed opportunity.
A lot of movies have been made about Adolf Hitler, but this is certainly one of the best; it shows the psychology that goes on when a leader and his followers fall from power.
A long stare into an abyss from which no comforting answers can emerge.
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