Downfall (2004)
Der Untergang (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Bruno Ganz	...	Adolf Hitler
	Alexandra Maria Lara	...	Traudl Junge
	Corinna Harfouch	...	Magda Goebbels
	Ulrich Matthes	...	Joseph Goebbels
	Juliane Köhler	...	Eva Braun
	Heino Ferch	...	Albert Speer
	Christian Berkel	...	Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
	Matthias Habich	...	Prof. Dr. Werner Haase
	Thomas Kretschmann	...	SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
	Michael Mendl	...	General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling
	André Hennicke	...	SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke
	Ulrich Noethen	...	Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler
	Birgit Minichmayr	...	Gerda Christian
	Rolf Kanies	...	General der Infanterie Hans Krebs
	Justus von Dohnányi	...	General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf

Storyline

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. Written by Anthony Hughes {husnock31@hotmail.com}  

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