Stunning

Rating: 10/10 (20 April 2005)

A German film about the last days of the Nazi regime has to be of potential interest. This amounts to a lot more than that. I think it an must see film. The construction of the film is amazing it attempts to cover huge ground in the space available to it pulling together threads which include: the impact of the final days on ordinary citizens, the organisation and hierarchy surrounding the fuhrer, a depiction of Hitler that goes beyond caricature and a real sense of the 'dream' of the third Reich finally folding into a nightmare. Performances all round were excellent. There is depth and intelligence at work here..do not let it pass you by. I would add a word of caution that the scene depicting the deaths of the Geobbals children is truly harrowing and has stayed with me for weeks.