Well worth seeing...

Rating: 8/10 (28 May 2007)

German film about Hitler's last days in his bunker at the end of WW2.
This was nominated for an Oscar and i can see why - its a very interesting subject, not something WW2 films tend to concentrate on and it was interesting to see a German-made WW2 film. It looks really good - the reproduction of the period, the battle scenes, Bruno Ganz's performance as Hitler.
As it goes on and things get more desperate i got into it a lot more and the thing that affected me most were the suicides, the information about what happened to the people around Hitler (and discovering quite a lot of them only died a few years ago and one was still alive when the film was released) and also the modern day interview with Hitler's secretary that bookends the film.
Its quite long and a bit of a downer - not the sort of film i'd want to watch again anytime soon - but well worth seeing.