Piece of catharsis

Rating: Null/10 (24 March 2007)

A important film for discover the image of a time without shadows of propaganda or preconceptions.
A important film for see Hitler not like supreme monster but like small man at end of ambition.
A important film for explore of different faces of reality, for understand the personal truth like ordinary form of self-protection.
A film about the corpse of an ambiguous era, about the shards of a lie, about death and duty, about closed worlds and anatomy of fear, about fake myths and foolish hope, about sense of life and signification of final gestures.
It is a movie, a splendid movie about fall of Nazi regime. In same measure, it is touching description of any dictator crush, about dissolution of a powerful image and Utopian project.
The presence of Alexandra Maria Lara is more than a brilliant acting example. The sensitivity, the look, the relation with a twilight universe are amazing.
And Bruno Ganz... . After memorialistic literature, documentaries and commentaries, after testimonies and description, for first time I saw the image behind the masks and verdicts.
Hitler as victim, Hitler between worlds, Hitler like "pater familias", Hitler like shadow of a strange powerful myth.
After the end of film must read the testimony of Traudl Junge. The colors of honest confession, the images and the characters transforms "Der Untergang" not in a war story but in a special form of catharsis.