Brilliant

Rating: 8/10 (7 October 2005)

Bruno Ganz' portrayal of the worlds most hated man is totally believable. His madness, his anger and his more humane side (and also his 'philosophy') are all covered in plenty of detail. If someone could outdo him, I would love to know who.
Hitler was not the only person out of his mind inside the bunker, the mood switches from tense to hanging in the chandelier drunk, Eva Braun is detached from everything happening in the outside world. Goebbles wife, the 'best' mother of der dritte Reich, gets no sympathy whatsoever from this viewer.
This is a complex piece of work, we get to see the people probably close to what they were, not pointing any fingers, but letting them be themselves.