Before the Fall 2004  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Napola
Director: Dennis Gansel
Cast: Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Michael Schenk, Devid Striesow, Joachim Bissmeier, Justus von Dohnanyi, Jonas Jagermeyr, Leon A. Kersten, Florian Stetter, Gerald Alexander Held, Claudia Michelsen, Thomas Drechsel, Martin Goeres, Joachim Bissmeier, Karel Dobry
It is 1941, and young Germans are attending an exclusive school in order to train as future leaders of the Third Reich. Despite his anti-Nazi father's objections, talented boxer Friedrich Weimer (Max Riemelt) makes it into the school. Once there, he befriends Albrecht Stein (Tom Schilling) who questions the actions of his own father, the Nazi military governor of the area, and gives Friedrich his first glimpse of what is going on in Germany. As he continues at school, more insights will follow.
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Downfall 2004  R, 150 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Kohler, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel, Matthias Habich, Thomas Kretschmann, Michael Mendl, Ulrich Noethen, Birgit Minichmayr, Andre Hennicke, Rolf Kanies, Justus von Dohnanyi
Adolf Hitler's (Bruno Ganz) secretary Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) narrates this story of Hitler's last ten days, which he spent in a Berlin bunker before his suicide in 1945. Hitler's Reich is crumbling, and his mistress Eva Braun (Juliane Kohler) throws parties. Meanwhile, Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes) and his wife Magda (Corinna Harfouch) contemplate murdering their six children and then killing themselves. Meanwhile, Hitler refuses to leave and, like the others in the bunker, will choose suicide rather than facing the Allies after Germany is defeated.
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