Downfall

Title : Downfall (April 1945, a nation awaits its...Downfall)

Released on : 2004-09-08

Rating : 52 votes, average 8.5

Audience Rating : R

Status : Released

Duration : 156 minutes

Budget : 18339750.00 USD

Revenue : 92180910.00 USD

Genre : Drama, Foreign, History

Homepage : Official Website

Overview : In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

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Casts

Bruno GanzAs Adolf Hitler

Alexandra Maria LaraAs Traudl Junge

Corinna HarfouchAs Magda Goebbels

Ulrich MatthesAs Joseph Goebbels

Juliane KöhlerAs Eva Braun

Heino FerchAs Albert Speer

Christian BerkelAs Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck

Thomas KretschmannAs SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein

Ulrich NoethenAs Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler

Birgit MinichmayrAs Gerda Christian

Rolf KaniesAs General der Infanterie Hans Krebs

Justus von DohnanyiAs General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf

Michael MendlAs General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling

André HennickeAs SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke

Christian RedlAs Generaloberst Alfred Jodl

Götz OttoAs SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Günsche

Thomas LimpinselAs Kammerdiener Heinz Linge

Thomas ThiemeAs Martin Bormann

Donevan GuniaAs Peter Kranz

Matthias HabichAs Prof. Dr. Werner Haase

Gerald Alexander HeldAs Walter Hewel

Bernd EichingerProducer

Christine RotheExecutive Producer

Rainer KlausmannDirector of Photography

Stephan ZachariasOriginal Music Composer

An Dorthe BrakerCasting

Bernd LepelProduction Design

Claudia BobsinCostume Design

Nico KrebsSound Designer

Lisa Geffcken-ReinhardSound Effects Editor

Oliver HirschbiegelDirector

Joachim FestAuthor

Traudl JungeAuthor

Melissa MüllerAuthor

Bernd EichingerScreenplay

Hans FunckEditor

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