Chilling and Essential

Rating: 10/10 (28 March 2006)

I think every person on earth should be required to view this film. I can think of no other film that does as good of job of relaying the horrors of war and in particular, the tragedy that the Nazis brought upon Germany. Certainly nobody could dare to profess an admiration for Hitler after seeing what he did to Germany. This film helps relate those last few days as Nazi leaders cower in their bunker and bark orders to other Germans on the outside to keep fighting and dying. Moreover, when we are forced to view the deaths of the six Goebbels children, well, it is almost too much. The performances and the writing are just top notch. I don't think I have ever seen a movie so realistic in details and this is of course because the movie is based on the testimony of Germans that were actually there experiencing this as it happened. Powerful, very powerful