A success in France -- and that is saying a lot.

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2005)

The film opened in France this week (6th January), and in a country which has traditionally been very hostile to even the best of post-war German cinema (the recent "Goodbye Lenin" was a welcome exception), "Der Untergang" has been playing to sold-out houses (I could get a seat only in the first row), which tells you how good it is.
A sober and yet chilling account of how, after first laying waste to large swathes of Western and Eastern Europe and murdering its populations, Hitler was absolutely ready to do exactly the same in Germany itself since he judged its people "unworthy" of his own deranged ideals.
Compelling cinema served by an excellent cast and solid direction.