This is truly film history!

Rating: 9/10 (17 March 2005)

This is with out a doubt, one of the best war films i have ever seen. Of course it could not come from the organized censorship known as USA, it had too come from Europe.
It dives into the madness of a man, a man who is fragile, an emotional handicapped shadow of a human being. But still it also portraits an icon who where worshipped by a great deal of the German people, this man who where a God to so many people suddenly gets a face, a face who is not only expressing hate, but also sadness and fear, but this is always overshadowed by his powerful hatred. This is not a film where you will find your self closing your eyes when people are killed, but rather a movie where you will hold your ears when this extremely hateful man is talking about the world as he sees it, still you can not help yourself, you will not hate this man when you leave the cinema, you will pity this broken shell of a man.
Bruno Gantz as Adolf Hitler is the single most powerful role i have ever seen, he shows Hitler the way we know him from pictures and movie clips, as a loud and verbally violent man. As for the side of Hitler who few knew he gives his most terrifying performance and reveals the fact that we all hoped wasn't true, that Hitler wasn't a God or a demon, he was a human being, a human being just like you and me ad you know what? thats what scared me the most.