Excellent film about the Final Days

Rating: Null/10 (28 September 2006)

'Downfall' is a superb real life account by Hitler's private secretary Traudl Junge detailing the final days of the Third Reich. Based on her memoirs that she released as a book, this film follows events from Junge's point of view, beginning with her employment in 1942 as Hitler's personal secretary, until his subsequent suicide in 1945.
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz absolutely steals the film, and probably delivers the best performance of Adolf Hitler that any actor has ever done. He portrays Hitler not only as a tyrant, but shows his more personal attributes too, such as his apparent charm when talking to Junge, and other characteristics that were reported by Hitler's inner circle.
This film not only shows the tension from within the bunker, but also shows the chaos and destruction ever building in surrounding Berlin. There are genuinely some very memorable and shocking scenes in this film, that some people may find hard to believe actually happened. But all in all, watching this you actually feel the desperation and chaos as if you are there.
Recommended to anyone interested in this period of history.