A masterpiece! Right amongst my top war films!

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2015)

Let me first of all begin by stating that Bruno Ganz's performance as Hitler is in my book the greatest ever from amongst those based upon historic personalities. It is mind-blowing, brilliantly fantastic! The way he adopts Hitler's accent, the way he talked in general, the way he angrily reacts to every news of doom, is all out of the world. I in particular liked his acting in the scene where he discovers about Himmler's "treason". Pure brilliance, that scene. Knowing the German language of course lands me in a position to comment on these factors, as the dubbed English version of the film would have taken taken all these factors out of the equation, sadly.
The film in general is one great depiction of the last day events. So far it is easily the best German film that I have watched. One great thing was that it makes you get a good feel of the war, the things happening out there. For the whole two hours or so I really felt to have been living in 1945 in Germany. It was at times laughable to see Hitler sticking to his belief that they were closer and closer to winning the war, and then of course were there his generals who could clearly see the downfall. It was really interesting to see how different people belonging to two mindsets saw the whole situation differently.
Whereas 'Fury' (2014) for now continues to be my favourite war film, possibly because it was my first ever introduction into "feel" factor of the World War II, which is not experienced through extensive reading but through a film, documentary or a drama, this goes down as a film really close to that one in my war films list, very close. The film well and truly deserves to be in the top 250 IMDb films, as it is on number 116 I see.