Brutally Truthful

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2018)

Incredible film of the last days of Hitler and the people who stayed with him in the bunker as the Communists were closing in. Bruno Ganz's performance was spot on from the books written by/about those closest to him, especially his surviving secretary, Traudl Junge. Mr. Ganz vividly portrayed a manipulative monster, one who is very charming and warm when one-on-one with him, who loved dogs, children, and pretty secretaries, yet had a soul of evil that plotted and implemented the extermination of millions of innocent people and started a war that claimed tens of millions more. Christian Berkel is fascinating as the SS doctor trying to save the lives of as many people as he can from the Communist hoards sweeping in to Berlin. We know how this story ended, but now it was told honestly and factually.