great sober film, best Hitlerfilm ever made!

Rating: 9/10 (23 June 2005)

'Der Untergang' (Downfall) has got a lot of comment when he released because Adolf Hitler would be 'too much human.' I don't support the man's ideas but I'm convinced that also he could love; he loved his dog a lot and he loved his wife just like any other human.
In this movie we see a Adolf Hitler with two faces: the Hitler as militair and the Hitler as human. Hitler can be very loving but also very angry and hard.
In this movie is Adolf Hitler played by Bruno Ganz and he's the best Hitler in the movieworld! (That's of course only my opinion but believe me, I have already seen many movieHitlers) Bruno Ganz is so good in playing this two faced Hitler: first you see him with a smile on face, giving his wife a hug and the next moment you see him really angry yelling to his generals. Great!
Because the movie plays the most of the time in a bunker, it's a very sober movie. Sober movies are not necessarily bad movies (look to 'Million Dollar Baby' or 'Batman Begins') and concerning the subject of this movie it must be a sober movie!
I can not believe that this film hasn't won an Oscar last year. He really was the best nominee for the category Foreign Language Film and my opinion is that Bruno Ganz deserved at least a nomination for Best Actor In A Leading Role, but the (conservative) Academy has decided....
However, 'Der Untergang' is a great movie who everybody must have seen. It's a movie about war, but also love, sentimentality and to lose your sense of reality...