Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (2002)

Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.

Directors:

André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer

Writers:

André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer

Star:

Traudl Junge

2 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview:
Traudl Junge	...	Herself

Storyline

Traudl Junge was Adolf Hitler's private secretary, from Autumn 1942 until the collapse of the Nazi regime. She worked for him at the Wolfsschanze in Obersalzberg, on his private train and, finally, in his bunker in the besieged capital. It was Traudl Junge to whom Hitler dictated his final testament. In her first ever on-camera interview, 81-year-old Junge talks about her unique life. In the spring of 2001, Andre Heller succeeded in convincing Traudl Junge how valuable it is to record her unique memories. Fifty-six years after the end of the Second World War, an important eyewitness reveals her experiences to us. What she saw and heard turned her into an furious opponent of National Socialism; an opponent, moreover, who is still painfully aware and seems incapable of forgiving the young girl she once was--for her naivete, ignorance, and her liking for Hitler.

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Plot Keywords:

soldier | killing an animal | poisoning an animal | mockery | shooting oneself | 

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography | War

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for thematic material

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Germany] Official site [United States]

Country:

Austria

Language:

German

Release Date:

22 March 2002 (Austria)

Also Known As:

Az utolsó óráig - Hitler titkárnőjének visszaemlékezései

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$9,216, 26 January 2003, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$376,886, 6 July 2003

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min 95 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

The official sites of this film claim that these interviews are Traudl Junge's first public appearance, that she "kept quiet for nearly 60 years".

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Quotes

Traudl Junge: But one day I walked past the memorial plaque for Sophie Scholl on Franz-Joseph-Straße and there I realised that she was my age group and that she was executed the year I came to Hitler. That moment I felt that being young actually isn't an excuse and that maybe one could have learnt about things.

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Connections

Edited into Downfall (2004)

User Reviews

BLIND SPOT and Junge's previous interview

Much is being made by BLIND SPOT's producers that Junge has been silent all these years, never speaking on record until they interviewed her just before her death. Actually Junge was interviewed at great length for the epic documentary series THE WORLD AT WAR, produced for British television in the '70s.

Junge's english was excellent, and her original interview, conducted 30 years ago, was just as chillingly matter-of-fact as I hear the current one is. BLIND SPOT sounds very compelling, and certainly not in need of inacurate hype about its uniqueness.

The DVD of WORLD AT WAR contains an expanded version of Junge's interview in its extras section, along with an appearance by a then thirty-year-younger historian Stephen Ambrose - WITH LONG HAIR!