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Untergang (Motion picture)

Title

Downfall = Der Untergang / [presented by] Constantin Film, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Degeto Film, Österreichischer Rundfunk and Rai Cinema ; directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel ; produced and written by Bernd Eichinger.

Edition

Widescreen version.

Published

Physical Description

1 videodisc (149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes

Based on the books Inside Hitler's bunker by Joachim Fest and Until the final hour by Traudl Junge and Melissa Müller.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.

Special features: The making of Downfall; Biographer Melissa Müller about Traudl Junge; Interviews; The shooting of Downfall.

Director of photography, Rainer Klausmann ; editor, Hans Funck ; music, Stephan Zacharias.

Dialogue in German; subtitles in English.

Summary

Depicts the final ten days of Nazi Germany in Hitler's bunker and Berlin. Based partly on the first-hand account of secretary Traudl Junge, the film shows the collapse of Hitler's plans, the suicides of Hitler and those around him, and the entrance of the Russians into Berlin. The film begins and ends with the words of Traudl Junge and her slow realization that she too was partially responsible for the acts of the Nazis.

Variant and related titles

Untergang

Format

Images / Video & Film

Language

German

Added to Catalog

March 13, 2018

Credits

Director of photography, Rainer Klausmann ; editor, Hans Funck ; music, Stephan Zacharias.

Cast

Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Mathes, Juliane Köhler, Heino Speer, Christian Berkel.

System details note

Blu-ray; Widescreen (16:9, 1.78:1) presentation; requires Blu-ray player; 1080p High-Definition; Region ABC; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Audience

BBFC (British Board of Film Certificate): 15 (suitable only for persons of 15 years and over)(contains strong violence, moderate sex references and surgical detail).

Videorecording number

MP778BR Momentum Pictures

Subjects

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 > Death and burial > Drama.

Junge, Gertraud > Drama.

Private secretaries > Germany > Drama.

Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945 > Drama.

Genre/Form

Biographical films.

War films.

Historical films.

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