Official Website MPAA Rating: R Theater Release: 2/25/2005 Video Release: 8/2/2005 Buy it from Amazon: DVDVHS
Funerals in Berlin - By Donald Levit Slow-moving but not boring for its hundred-fifty-five minutes, this macabre stately dance of death compels a species of sympathy in spite of any audience’s pre-conditioned, and deservedly reinforced, repulsion. Its title three-pronged, Downfall depicts the disintegration... MORE >>
Remembering Hitler's Last Days - By Betty Jo Tucker What was it like in Hitler’s bunker during the final days of the Third Reich? How did he and his cohorts behave when they knew the end was near? Downfall, a 2004 Oscar-nominated German film, provides answers to these questions with its spellbinding dramatization based on the memories... MORE >>
Profound and Powerful - By Geoffrey D. Roberts Nothing in history books can open up the same kind of dialogue or have the profound impact that Downfall, a movie about Adolf Hitler, achieves. This film is perhaps too real, too vivid, and too difficult to bear in one sitting. You'll probably want to stop... MORE >>
