the first time I watched Nazi Germany from a German point of view

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 2005)

Der Untergang is neither a requiem nor a denial of what Hitler did. For the fist time in my life I watched the Nazi Germany from German point of view. For years Hollywood made the world watch movies like "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist" to imprint Jewish sufferings on people's mind. Those movies were a perfect means to look at a war by only a means of suffering of race given that only the six million of 50 million demised people were Jewish. The movie perfectly humanizes Hitler and people around him without glorifying and justifying what he and his entourage did. The events mostly are reflected by the perspective of Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge (Lara).Events outside Hitler's bunker are mostly depicted from the perspective of SS doctor Ernst Gunther Schenck (Cristian Berkel). Humanizing a war leader like Hitler helps us to see the historical importance of Nazis' rise to power:how human beings could be blinded by the desire to rule,govern and dominate.The movie at this point is a fine-crafted at which point shows us what happened exactly though it doesn't offer any leads of how and why? If you wanna see some attempt at objectivity, if you wanna see Bruno Ganz's laudable performance as Hitler this movie is a must to see!