The Downfall (Der Untergang)

Rating: 10/10 (18 September 2006)

Being a student of WWII history and a fan of movies about that era, this movie caught me off guard. Sure it is about Adolf Hitler's last days in the bunker in Berlin. And that storyline is more compelling and honestly told than some of the other "bunker" moves starring A. Hopkins and A. Guiness.
But the "downfall" is about many other people who were associated with this tragic regime and their equally emotional downfall. While it would be a stretch for most people to consider Hitler's death sorrowful (to say the least), there are many moments in the movie where you feel sadness for some of the other individuals tied to the end of the Third Reich. It is the plight of these other individuals where the study of the good and evil of the human spirit is so vividly depicted.