A movie that makes you feel like you were there

Rating: 9/10 (27 March 2011)

This film is an accurate portrayal of the last days of World War II, where an increasingly insane Adolf Hitler becomes more disconnected from reality, while those around him panic.
Many of you might know this film from all the parodies where a ranting Hitler is shown screaming about some contemporary issue. You'll giggle at that scene, but the other scenes are quite well done, and make you forget for a moment that Hitler was indeed a monster. Here he comes off like a sympathetic figure.
Quite graphic in its way, it's best to watch this film in the original German with subtitles.
Some parts of the film are uncomfortable to watch, such as children being used as cannon fodder in Berlin's defense, or Magda Goebbels poisoning her own children rather than let them live in a Nazi-free world. But these things actually happened, and they increase the horror the director was trying to get across.