made in 2004. first time ive seen it. IMO well worth watching. intense. from wiki: Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004 German war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's reign over Nazi Germany in 1945. The film is written and produced by Bernd Eichinger, and based upon the books Inside Hitler's Bunker, by historian Joachim Fest; Until the Final Hour, the memoirs of Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's secretaries (co-written with Melissa Müller); Albert Speer's memoirs, Inside the Third Reich; Hitler's Last Days: An Eye–Witness Account, by Gerhardt Boldt; Das Notlazarett unter der Reichskanzlei: Ein Arzt erlebt Hitlers Ende in Berlin by Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck; and, Siegfried Knappe's memoirs, Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936–1949. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp1RXmM1-60 the full movie is on youtube
It's in my top five. It's drawn from a number of sources (as identified by you), so it's probably as close as anyone will ever get to the reality of that historic event. Not only the sources, but the uniforms, weapons and so on are meticulously recreated as it really was.
And mine, too. A movie which manages to be entertaining, intelligent and ( IMPO ) realistic. We've discussed it on this Forum many times - I still recommend the 'special edition' DVD which contains some interesting interviews with cast and crew.
