Awesome psychological analysis of Hitler and his generals / close women

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2005)

Very good movie. I saw a lot of movies of 2nd WW, and this is one of the greatest, although there are nearly no scenes of combat.
It provides you a very good insight of what can be the last month of a war in a Headquarter (95% of the movie is inside a bunker). The movie is very psychological, you never are bored, although everybody knows how it finishes.
I was much impressed by the actor that plays Hitler, showing this person as a bit "schizophrenic": he changes his mind from despair to great hope although most generals know how it will finish.
You really feel yourself as one of the generals and thinking "What should I say to this crazy Hitler now ? If I tell the truth he will become mad and if I lie saying everything goes alright, I and my family will be killed"
You see also the complete fanatic Nazis and SS that take Hitler like their god (Goebbels, his wife, the SS officers...)
You feel the cruelty and absence of mercy of Hitler, although he sometimes shows some humanity and gentleness to women and to the fidel generals. "If I die, all Germans deserve to die too" - "all the strong Aryans are dead in combat, so all the weak (remaining civilians in Berlin) should die too"
The play of the actresses (Eva Braun, the secretary, the wife of Goebbels) is impressive too.
Brrrrrr, what a terrible guy Hitler (and the SS) were.
Did you know that all future SS soldiers received a dog for their 14 year old and had to kill the dog when they were 16 ! After that, you understand what kind of inhumane beings you can create with some machiavelic methods on young people.