Downfall
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Ulrike Krumbiegel
Thorsten Krohn
Thomas Kretschmann
Birgit Minichmayr
Anna Thalbach
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In the dead of a November night in 1942, a group of young women are escorted by SS officers through the woods to Wolf's Lair, Hitler's headquarters in Eastern Prussia. They are candidates for the post of personal secretary to the Fuehrer. Among them is 22-year-old Traudl Junge, a fresh-faced girl from Munich. Traudl is chosen for the job and she is overcome with joy at the thought of serving beside her Fuehrer. Berlin, April 20, 1945: Hitler has retreated to a bunker system under the German Chancellery. Traudl Junge is asleep in her room, deep beneath the ground. She is awakened by tremors from artillery fire. The enemy is getting closer. Charting the last 10 days of Hitler's life, from his 56th birthday on April 20th, 1945 to his suicide on April 30th, the film uses multiple characters to show the chaos of a country coming apart at the seams, from Hitler's henchman under the streets of Berlin, to the soldiers and civilians fighting and dying as the Soviet Army ravaged the city above.
Director
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast
Ulrike Krumbiegel
Thorsten Krohn
Thomas Kretschmann
Birgit Minichmayr
Anna Thalbach
Charlotte Stoiber
Deitrich Hollinderbaumer
Devid Striesow
Christian Berkel
Julia Bauer
Justus Von Dohnanyi
Heinrich Schmieder
Bruno Ganz
Jürgen Tonkel
Fabian Busch
Andrt Hennicke
Thomas Thieme
Ulrich Noethen
Corinna Harfouch
Bettina Redlich
Gregory Borlein
Alexander Slastin
Donevan Gunia
Matthias Habich
Michael Mendl
Gerald Alexander Held
Alexandra Maria Lara
Thomas Limpinsel
Heino Ferch
Christian Hoening
Ulrich Matthes
Laura Borlein
Götz Otto
Juliane Köhler
Amelie Menges
Karl Kranzkowski
Alina Sokar
Rolf Kanies
Dieter Mann
Christian Redl
Crew
Claudia Bobsin
An Dorthe Braker
Stefan Busch
Bernd Eichinger
Bernd Eichinger
Joachim C Fest
Hans Funck
Traudl Junge
Rainer Klausmann
Rainer Klausmann
Michael Kranz
Bernd Lepel
Melissa Muller
Margrit Neufink
Waldemar Pokromski
Hanus Polak Jr.
Christine Rothe
Silvia Tollmann
Roland Winkler
Stephan Zacharias
Elena Zhukova
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Foreign Language Film
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of two 2005 awards including Actor of the Year (Bruno Ganz) and Foreign Language Film of the Year by the London Critics' Circle.
Released in United States Winter February 18, 2005
Released in United States February 25, 2005
Released in United States on Video August 2, 2005
Released in United States 2005
Released in United States January 2005
Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival January 28-February 6, 2005.
Shown at Palm Springs International Film Festival January 6-17, 2005.
Based on the novels "Inside Hitler's Bunker" written by Joachim Fest; published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux April 1, 2004 and "Until the Final Hour" written by Traudl Junge and Melissa Muller; published by Arcade Publishing April 2, 2004.
Released in United States Winter February 18, 2005 (NY)
Released in United States February 25, 2005 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video August 2, 2005
Released in United States 2005 (Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival January 28-February 6, 2005.)
Released in United States January 2005 (Shown at Palm Springs International Film Festival January 6-17, 2005.)
Winner of the 2005 award for Actor of the Year (Bruno Ganz)
