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17 February 2005

Der Untergang 

Or die Verwandlung if you'd like. What Bruno Ganz does in order to portray Hitler in that film is amazing, simply amazing. I got to see it on Saturday and don't know why I haven't written anything about it until now. Sorry! Anyway, I would recommend this claustrophobic and very disturbing* film to anyone who's the slightest bit interested in history and who doesn't care about subtitles (or is/understand German). I embrace any German film showing some part of WWII (as long as it's historically correct) because it shows that there's always hope, people can change. Of course, by next generation there won't be anyone responsible left, which makes it so much easier to forgive...and forget, unfortunately. It's one of those popular phrases that may be seen as a cliché, but at no point in the future should the world forget what happened during the second world war.

Der Untergang, which should get an Oscar next weekend or I will be...not too surprised and not too cross, really, but I would think it a shame, is about the last few days of the Third Reich, meaning we get to spend a lot of time in a small bunker together with Hitler and his minions, as well as a few innocent bystanders (Goebbels's children). This dramatisation is considered to be among the most accurate ones when it comes to the actual events happening, as it draws upon the story of one of Hitler's secretaries, Traudl Junge, who died a few years ago. The film is called Downfall in English and you may visit the international site here.

*) Disturbing not because of physical violence or anything, but the fact that it makes them seem human. Of course I know that all the nazis were human, that's the worst part of humanity, isn't it, that we're capable of doing so many foul and despicable deeds, but I believe thinking about them as different than the rest of us makes me grasp the whole reason for the war more easily. But in this film you may discover that they're a lot more similar to you than you'd care to know.

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