The most realistic depiction ever filmed

Rating: 10/10 (13 March 2005)

Although Hitler's final days have been depicted many times on film, it took a German filmmaker to get it exactly right. I had two thoughts: I missed seeing a scene where President Roosvelt dies and Goebbels excitedly informs Hitler, predicting that the tide would now turn in the Nazis' favor. Of course, nothing changed and their exuberance was brief. (Perhaps they filmed such a scene and left it on the cutting room floor.) Second, the depiction of the bunker was so realistic that I had the feeling that the filmmakers had been given secret access to the real bunker. (After all, it still must exist, deep under Wilhemstrasse in Berlin, and will probably eventually become a tourist site, perhaps a hundred years from now.)