a precise account of how the madness ruled

Rating: 9/10 (26 November 2005)

Bruno Ganz is perfect as Hitler! This fact alone would make the movie worth seeing, but there is more than that. It as a precise account of how the madness ruled in the last days of Hitler reign: how he let the country suffer and when he realized that inevitable end, how he said that Germans did deserve the fall. The film showed a lot of futile deaths: ten year old recruits falling in the streets of Berlin fighting against the Russians, deserters shot by Gestapo patrols. It also showed Hitler's power over the people who still obeyed him and many of them also followed his example and committed suicide in the last days. Perhaps the most shocking was Frau Gobbels, who murdered her six children, saying that it was not worth living in a world without Nazism. All in all, the film was shocking and it gave you a strong warning: beware fanatic dictators!