Bringing depth and humanity to monsters

Rating: 10/10 (20 October 2005)

What can I say. I loved this film. Any filmmaker can show us the bad that people do, but it takes a depth and honest to dimensional-ize its villains. That's what I find so powerful about this film. Fully accurate or not, it feels like we're looking at real people. On a certain level, you almost feel bad for them. Its by no means an apology piece for the Nazi party, but it gives us a perspective I haven't yet seen in a movie. The performance from Bruno Ganz as Hitler was terrific. As a whole, the movie exceeds on so many levels.
If you enjoy richly drawn characters and history, you can probably do no better. 5/5