Dramatization of the last days of Hitler in his Berlin bunker

Rating: 9/10 (31 May 2005)

This was an outstanding movie with excellent performances by all, especially Bruno Ganz as Adolph Hitler. The scene where Frau Goebbels murders her 6 children rather that have them live in a world without the 3rd Reich is horrifying, but true. The scenes of shelling and shooting on the streets of Berlin and the vivid display of wounds and amputations. Hitler's descent into disbelief that the war is lost, and that surrender is the only option are riveting. With the Soviet armies less than a mile away, Hitler orders non-existent troops to repulse the invaders with a pincer-movement. The inability of all but a few generals to report the truth of the situation, while the majority pander to Hitler's phantoms is, as far as we know, a true characterization.