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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. Cast Bruno Ganz Adolf Hitler Alexandra Maria Lara Traudl Junge Corinna Harfouch Magda Goebbels Ulrich Matthes Joseph Goebbels Juliane Kohler Eva Braun Heino Ferch Albert Speer Christian Berkel Prof. Ernst-Gunter Schenck Matthias Habich Prof. Dr. Werner Haase Thomas Kretschmann Gruppenfuhrer Hermann Fegelein Michael Mendl Gen. Helmuth Weidling Ulrich Noethen Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler Birgit Minichmayr Gerda Christian Andre Hennicke Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke Rolf Kanies Gen. Hans Krebs Justus von Dohnanyi Gen. Wilhelm Burgdorf