I left feeling disoriented and very disquieted, a feeling that lasted for several hours. BUt it is also the only film in recent memory that had an almost physical impact on me. First of all, this is almost PERFECT cinema, beautifully shot, acted, lit, staged and on and on. I don't know what to say about this film.
The director and his team have to be congratulated for taking us on a voyage to see the last moments of the Third Reich. Ulrich Matthes as Joseph Goebbels and Heino Ferch as Albert Speer are equally effective playing these two men. Yet, we don't ever know what made this Eva Braun tick. At times, she is presented as a carefree young woman who might have loved Hitler. Juliane Kohler, as Eva Braun, is an enigma. Goebbels makes us cringe in horror because of what she is capable of doing. The other excellent performance is given by Corinna Harfouch, who as Mrs. She saw plenty inside the bunker and lived to tell it to the world. As Traudl Junge, the young secretary, Alexandra Maria Lara gives a subtle performance. Ganz is totally irrational, and at times, he is presented as a lost man who can't see what he has done to Germany and to Europe and the world.
Ganz's uncanny resemblance with Hitler is what makes the film works the way it does. As Hitler, he makes us see this man as he probably was in real life. The film is totally dominated by Bruno Ganz. In her narrow view of things, Magda must take her family with her to a death these children didn't deserve. The scene where Magda Goebbels murders her children is hard to take and we keep sinking in our seats, as we can't believe such cruelty existed. The Goebbels, both Joseph and Magda, supporters of the regime, maintain the loyalty to the Fuhrer until the end. We get to know the people in Hitler's inner circle. It was a fortification in which all comforts the regular Germans could not imagine existed. We watch the life of privilege the higher ups led inside the bunker. We watch a man at the beginning of the film that is still thinking he is in command of the German forces, but his authority has eroded, as it becomes clear to the people under him the war is lost and it will be a matter of time before they are defeated. The film captures the tragic figure of Hitler as everything is caving in on him and his grand plans for victory. She is a pretty woman who is naive in many ways and probably had no inkling about the trip she was going to embark. At the beginning of the film we watch as five young women are brought to be interviewed by Hitler for a job as his personal secretary. The director, Oliver Hirshbiegel, working with a big cast, brings to life the madness of the last days of the monster, as observed by a young and impressionable secretary who witnessed most of the crisis. This magnificent film goes where no one else dared to go to show us the last days of Adolf Hitler. Title (Brazil): "A Queda! As últimas Horas de Hitler" ("The Fall! The Last Hours of Hitler") And for those who love war, I really recommend to watch this magnificent anti-war movie, and see the behavior of the leaders and population when a war is lost. For those who might have believed in Hitler and his Nazi Party, it is impressive to see how people is forgotten and treated without compassion by their leader in his last hours. For those who know Germany and German people, it is amazing to see how this wonderful country survived to the chaos, destruction and lack of command, arrived from the ashes like Phoenix and sixty years later is again one of the greatest nations. The cinematography and the battles are stunning, and the scenario of Berlin completely destroyed recalled the neo-realistic movie of Roberto Rossellini "Germania Anno Zero". It is difficult to highlight one actor or actress in this constellation of stars, but I was impressed with the performance of Bruno Ganz and his "human" Hitler, totally different from the stereotypes usual in other movies. With "Der Untergang", this director is certainly included in my list of favorite directors. Two years ago, I saw the powerful "Das Experiment" and I was impressed with the work of Oliver Hirschbiegel. But "Der Untergang" is awesome and comparable to "Apocalypse Now!", my favorite movie of war. Last year, I saw the deceptive, boring, pretentious and overrated "Molokh", showing a caricature of Hitler and Eva Braun in Bavaria. I have never seen a film picturing the insanity of Hitler in his very last days in a bunker in Berlin with his high command, and how the German people were hypnotized by him like in this film. "Der Untergang" is certainly the most impressive, depressive and realistic dramatic movie about the World War II ever made. The Most Impressive, Depressive and Realistic Dramatic Movie about the World War II
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