Remarkable

Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2005)

A truly amazing movie, heavy in it's consistence for making the watcher feel the pressuring stress lived at Hitler's Reichtag bunker on the last days of the second world war in Europe. It is without a doubt an historical document for it depict's those days with all the accuracy that history could provide us with today.
For some, the movie might look like an apologetic and humanizing view of the Nazis for it shows the all the despair already blending blend in with the blind madness lived by the Germans during this period with the particular plus of a close up of that despair on the ones who worked and lived around Hitler. However, from this point of view this movie is at most a ghost exorcising job from Germans to Germans by engaging dramatically in telling this story they know so well and, for understandable reasons, are hesitant to talk about openly.
Very well produced and characterized, with special attention to Ulrich Matthes whose who's character, Joseph Goebbels just isn't any funnier because of the constant thought that he was indeed a real psychopath responsible for the millions of murders caused by the Nazis and Bruno Ganz. The latest engagement in the character of Hitler was something unseen and deeply profound for it is a trip into a mind psychopath that rivals the ones of Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs.
A very good movie!