In this video I explain why I believe that the 2004 film Downfall is one of the best movies ever made, and why it should be in the top 10 list of every personal movie collection. Support me on Patreon: / leftfootmedia
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@diedertspijkerboer5 жыл бұрын
Many historians have said that Bruno Ganz' performance is the closest we'll ever get to who Hitler really was.
@A.A_xv5 жыл бұрын
lee hamlin that’s not a Nazi film.
@mattickista4 жыл бұрын
Historians such as?
@rippspeck4 жыл бұрын
+Felpe Scándalo This isn't Wikipedia, smartass. If you really wanna know, use the technology society has provided to you. You're not a skeptic, you're just lazy.
@Gar962294 жыл бұрын
I honestly can believe that.
@GamePilLP4 жыл бұрын
@lee hamlin If you think that "the Reader" was a Nazi film, you probably misunderstood it. Yes, it has a commentary on Nazis and it deals with the question about the next generation, that was very prominent in Germany at the time but it isn't about Nazis, it is about something i don't want to mention because it might spoil the movie or the book to others to others. But him playing a lecturer in that movie was weird to me. I could only see and hear Hitler when watching the german version of the movie. Still a great performance
@hian4 жыл бұрын
"This movie really makes you feel like Hitler." - IGN
@rawitammarapala90614 жыл бұрын
Wanna invade Poland?
@comradejosephstalinoftheus86984 жыл бұрын
Someone once said in a comment section : "You can't spell ignorance without IGN."
@Base20134 жыл бұрын
Wft ign means
@guwehjpovanjimebilek8984 жыл бұрын
@@rawitammarapala9061 You Son Of A Bitch, *IM IN*
@Drheims3 жыл бұрын
I would like it but it has 420 likes and I don’t want to ruin it.
@jldldr39332 жыл бұрын
It does not feel like a film, it feels like restored HD footage of 1945. That's how good of a movie this is.
@tthompson47682 жыл бұрын
Facts!
@genesmolko8113 Жыл бұрын
Like a documentary team was in the bunker
@chiensyang Жыл бұрын
Also do not forget all of the laughters we got from the parodies of this movie. 👏👏👏
@cyan445511 ай бұрын
With ai would it be possible to turn hitler speaches,videos and nazi items into hd 60 fps? could it be possible with AI?
@arielblakart4 ай бұрын
Yooo for real
@GreasyBelcher4 жыл бұрын
Bruno Gantz was so convincing as Hitler, he makes every other actors portrayal of Hitler look comical in comparison.
@GeoStreber3 жыл бұрын
Yeah just check out the one where Alec Guinness portrayed him. Feels like satire in comparison.
@frankabler3 жыл бұрын
He makes even Anthony Hopkins look bad.
@Achill1013 жыл бұрын
But why makes this video a point out of Ganz being Swiss? Even Hitler didn't start as a German but as an Austrian.
@gilgamesh3103 жыл бұрын
Oliver Masucci’s portrayal in Look Who’s Back was good too, but Bruno Ganz was the best.
@howardcitizen24713 жыл бұрын
@@Achill101 Because the Swiss speak German with a distinctive accent.
@Krawurxus5 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the German countryside and our town had only a single tiny cinema with maybe 150 seats. Our school offered every student who had already covered WW2 in class to skip a day of school to go see this movie and took care of the entry fee. I expected nothing from it, being 16 and just wanting to get out of class for a day. I was completely blown away and it remains one of my favorite movies to this day.
@themadhammer33055 жыл бұрын
I watched it about 2 years ago, the portrayal of Hitler amazed me since it captured quite well how people close to him said that he was. Kind of like the book Darkest Hour shows how Churchill was not the paragon of virtue that many portray him as these days
@Krawurxus5 жыл бұрын
@@mattkierkegaard9403 Go away please
@seabeevet79995 жыл бұрын
@@mattkierkegaard9403 How could any sane human being not be biased against it? Maybe you should rethink your life for a bit.
@IIIRobIII5 жыл бұрын
@@mattkierkegaard9403Fuck off and eat Shit, you god damn Nazi Piece of Trash!
@mattkierkegaard94035 жыл бұрын
@@themadhammer3305 Nope. Both autobiographies from Erich Kempka and Rochus Misch each contradict the information portrayed in this "movie". And if you have to ask who Erich Kempka and Rochus Misch were then your ignorance eon this matter is noted.
@AnonymousL165 жыл бұрын
best part is the movie isn't filled with Hollywood bullshit
@howlinsg19685 жыл бұрын
Oh yes it is.
@stproducciones91405 жыл бұрын
@@howlinsg1968 maybe cinematic bullshit but not americanized post-war Hollywood bullshit
@professionaltaxevader46385 жыл бұрын
Amen
@sheep215 жыл бұрын
@@josephrichter2104 fucking Nazi
@sheep215 жыл бұрын
@vladypunkyface fucking Nazi
@spellenberg4 жыл бұрын
Der Untergang is among the best ww2 films ever. It respects history, and portrays Hitler and his inner circle as real people. Evil and twisted people, but still people. and unlike most Hollywood movies, it shows that war is truely horrible. simply fantastic.
@Volgan166664 жыл бұрын
Yes that is it exactly. Properly the last time we will see such a true portrayal of the war. The next time we see a movie like it it will show the brown shirts marching in the streets until they are blocked by "the kids of the left and BLM" who will give them a good explaining and school them to such a degree that they will be ashamed and discard their lederhosen and armbands en masse. Then everyone will slow clap and WWII will be over. Roll credits and fade to black, the end.
@markusz44474 жыл бұрын
I Agree. Perhaps Schindlers list portrays the horrors even better.
@jjiang74884 жыл бұрын
Markus Zöggeler yes, just in a different perspective
@jordirafecasventosa58623 жыл бұрын
Private Ryan is one of Hollywood exceptions, its war portrage is astonishing
@NavidIsANoob3 жыл бұрын
@@Volgan16666 Isn't it the conservatives who complain that people call for violence against nazis?
@Synystr74 жыл бұрын
The part where Hitler is talking to the kids is actually on film and they recreated it for this movie. It is creepy
@FromBottomToTop3 жыл бұрын
Zack Olmert kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdd2m9l8xti9mok.html starting at 02:54
@B-Randon3 жыл бұрын
It’s true but that happened about a month prior before Berlin was encircled
@dstardutch38025 жыл бұрын
Ganz should have deserved an oscar for his portrayal.
@singulartrout5 жыл бұрын
Downfall wasnt an American film tho
@peterbird29185 жыл бұрын
@@singulartrout they only give Oscars to totally shit film's now
@peterbird29185 жыл бұрын
They give Oscars to shit film's now
@themadhammer33055 жыл бұрын
I agree, however could you imagine how batshit people would go if you have a Oscar for a portrayal of Hitler?
@no.78935 жыл бұрын
The Mad Hammer yeah it doesn’t matter how good the performance, that just would not happen in Hollywood
@KesselRunner6065 жыл бұрын
The first scene always scared me the most. Hitler enters and looks like a kindly old fashioned bank manager. A quiet, unasuming harmless old man. When he starts to dictate his speech and the girl can't keep up transcribing and starts to panic, he doesn't admonish her or shout at her. He leans over and kindly says "Maybe we should start again." And you chuckle then *instantly* freeze cold. Because for one instant, you just liked Hitler. Immediately I was hooked on the movie and Bruno Ganz's incredible performance.
@camo78865 жыл бұрын
The scene with the sexy vampires scared me the most.
@quoniam4265 жыл бұрын
What scared me most is the scene where Magda Goebbels kills her own children. She wants to spare them the tragedy of defeat and the humiliation that the allies will make them endure, it is both abominable and brave. I froze there. Oh Gosh, I swear, the actress must have remorse for playing this scene... I wouldn't fancy her in that position. During that scene I thought: "Here we are, it all has come to this, how did we get there in the first place? Desperation, sutpidity, cowardice, malice?"
@matomarley5 жыл бұрын
I get that people view Hitler as a monster but we have to realize that there are a lot of people with similar (even worse) thoughts even today. Since the Internet allowed us to hide behind the veil of anonymity we are witnessing people rationalizing and even denying some of the worst events that humanity experienced, such as holocaust, genocides, etc. People are now free to express what they really think, which is a good thing of course, however the outcome is truly terrifying.
@moonpixie36345 жыл бұрын
funny how non germans often times think he was a monster in his daily routines lol. there are many interviews from people who worked directly with hitler, for example rochus misch, they all say he was just a normal guy in private. he didnt scream or talk loudly nor did he punish you with death just because you made a mistake. no human in the world, no matter who it is or was, no matter how evil, is 100% bad. no mass murderer is 100% bad.
@richardschiffman76575 жыл бұрын
@@moonpixie3634 Actually by most accounts, Hitler was a very charming and gracious man with his private guests. He especially loved the company of women and children. He was only the caricature of an inhuman monster when he was doing his thunderous speeches in front of thousands of people.
@Mongolium3 жыл бұрын
The actor who played Himmler in Downfall looks more like him than the actual, historical person.
@m1co2943 жыл бұрын
So basically Himmler is more Himmler than Himmler
@toonvandenbroeck16973 жыл бұрын
@@m1co294 big brain time
@BrandonCuringtonOfficial3 жыл бұрын
I just watched Downfall yesterday. Gobbels' wife poisoning the children in their sleep was more horrifying than any horror movie I've seen. I'll probably never forget that scene.
@Liz22573 жыл бұрын
Yes. That scene has always stuck with me as well. I cannot begin to understand how someone is so taken over by an ideology that they think killing their own children is the moral thing to do. Absolutely horrifying.
@rare64993 жыл бұрын
@@Liz2257 they feared being taken by the Russians more than they feared death. Magda said that if they survived they would be hounded all their lives. She stated ‘"I would rather have my children die, than live in disgrace, jeered at. My children stand no chance in Germany after the war". The insanity of what was happening then is almost too much to contemplate. Their world was ending, much of Germany (especially Berlin) was in ruins. They were surrounded by death. Under such circumstances people make incomprehensible decisions. Definitely one of the most grim and awful moments of those last few days in the bunker.
@_SoCalDude_2 жыл бұрын
Magda Goebbels was truly a monster and a malignant narcissist through and through.
@alexbowman75822 жыл бұрын
A common grim German joke was enjoy the war because the peace will be worse.
@defaulted94852 жыл бұрын
On the other hand, its also heartbreaking that the parents not only killing the children, but thoroughly ruined their present and their future while making childrens while planning a war. These childrens are doomed from start because of something they couldn't control, while the actual culprit acting childish for their entire parenthood and wartime. Which is why the writing and plot of Downfall is hard to process but masterfully executed to spare the viewers from the even darker horrors than it shown.
@Volgan166665 жыл бұрын
Ganz should have received an Oscar for his above and beyound protrayal. Im so sad that he has passed away.
@Volgan166664 жыл бұрын
@Inigo Bantok Thank you for that. The man was perfect for that role.
@75opala4 жыл бұрын
Oscar doesn't mean anything. Lot of rubbish got Oscars. Is a commercial corrupt system, thanks he never wanted be part of it
@Volgan166664 жыл бұрын
@@75opala very true
@ReaperCH904 жыл бұрын
Let's be honest, we all know that this was probably one of the bedt, if not the best acting performance in cinema. He did not need an oscar to know this.
@Volgan166663 жыл бұрын
@abhishek sk the way the Oscars are going - nope it was not worthy of Bruno. Not by a long shot but we all know his performance was stellar.
@Jotari5 жыл бұрын
Oh this is the film where HItler complains about Call of Duty and stuff. Yeah, I've seen that.
@Wzrd85 жыл бұрын
a decade of memes for the old gods.
@StevioGaming15 жыл бұрын
I know it seems like that this movie changes every time I see a KZfaq video on it, first call of duty then idk Robbie rotten death. So many changes man I can’t keep up
@cyberdaemon4 жыл бұрын
@@StevioGaming1 Original meme was about Hitler getting banned from Xbox Live.
@StevioGaming14 жыл бұрын
@@cyberdaemon it was a joke I made 10 months ago
@wilholmrykes65894 жыл бұрын
@HQ See? Everywhere!
@RenegadeSamurai4 жыл бұрын
I was shaking my head back then, when the media started asking "Can you show Hitler as a human being?" I mean...he was, ugh media is a pain in the ass
@soco134664 жыл бұрын
I've seen this movie countless times. Hitler is shown to be more complex than the Snidely Whiplash portrayal we usually get. All of the acting is believable.
@massineben71985 жыл бұрын
All of the dislikes are from Fegelien.
@dongchankim24175 жыл бұрын
BRINGEN SIE MIR FEGELEIN FEGELEIN!!! FEGELEIN!! FEGELEIN!!!
@CraftySouthpaw5 жыл бұрын
LMAO!
@noviaadrianilatip24205 жыл бұрын
Wtf
@kimmyjohnny315 жыл бұрын
Fliyo MB Stalin created accounts and spammed dislike
@craigesmith19945 жыл бұрын
Hahaha!
@MoreImbaThanYou5 жыл бұрын
A swiss actor, playing the role of an austrian man, who became leader of germany. Huh.
@jonnysupreme4 жыл бұрын
A dude playing a dude disguised as another dude
@till-2134 жыл бұрын
@Edward Burgess No, Bruno Ganz was Swiss. We don‘t have a huge movie business in Switzerland, let alone world class actors. But Bruno Ganz was certainly one of them.
@frankk64164 жыл бұрын
@Edward Burgess Ganz was Swiss - born and raised in Zurich.
@SomeoneAtRandom4 жыл бұрын
jonny jonjon As long as this dude still knows what dude he is
@JH-lo9ut4 жыл бұрын
Not stranger than an Australian actor in an american made film, playing a fucking ROMAN GLADIATOR!
@oliverford53674 жыл бұрын
We also see Hitler's last days. Most footage of Hitler shows him during his rise to power and at the height of his power - ranting and raving in front of mass crowds. This is Hitler when everything he'd believed in and worked for had collapsed. Psychologically it's powerful as he's going through grief stages like denial and anger. Right at the end in this film he talks about Germany needing more oil - he can't quite deal with the fact that everything's collapsed. You see that in his political testament too - he denies any responsibility for the war and blames the Jews for starting it! He still tried to cling on to the Nazi ideology when it was at its end. The film portrays this expertly, showing his total collapse and his attempts to process it.
@manfredvaegler71944 жыл бұрын
I saw this movie for the first time at the 2003? 2004? Toronto International Film Festival and saw the director and several actors including Bruno Ganz do a Q+A after the film. Next day I went to the film Wim Wenders had at that years TIFF and because I arrived late I was forced to sit in one of the front rows along with another late comer. We had a delightful chat about great films that we had seen at the festival. There were a steady stream of people coming up and congratulating this gentleman on his film. It slowly dawned on me that I was sitting next to Bruno Ganz ( silly me, I didn’t recognize him without the mustache) At that moment he was just a film lover like myself wanting to see the latest film of his old director in “Wings of Desire” A delightful gentleman and a wonderful memory for me. RIP Bruno Ganz
@ainternet2396 жыл бұрын
I saw this film just after it came out, in a crowded cinema in southern Germany. When the film ended and the credits came up, you could have heard a pin drop. A very powerful film.
@oliverhaake75525 жыл бұрын
Same for me. Everyone sat until the credits ended and then the crowd got out in absolute silence. I watched the movie in Nuremberg, the city of the Reichsparteitage.
@Rendell0015 жыл бұрын
Riiiight... except David Irving is a thoroughly discredited excuse for a historian with a blatant far right agenda. Spreading disinformation to "muddy the issue" doesn't make it true.
@jabom995 жыл бұрын
I see the KZfaq Nazi weirdos have shown up in droves.
@richardlahan70685 жыл бұрын
@@jabom99 Yikes. Nazi apologists again!
@brodaviing66175 жыл бұрын
Rendell001 you're just muddying the water with your rethoric. Also, nazis are not "far right" in any way.
@princelemonade11115 жыл бұрын
Bruno Ganz the actor of Adolf Hitler, died on 15th February this year, his memory will be remembered through memes and the movie.
@Dustyholes4 жыл бұрын
He's an acting legend.. he's done a lot more than just Downfall
@TralfazConstruction4 жыл бұрын
I agree. His performance and his demeanor transcends any of the follow-on nonsense with those memes and so forth.
@Homestonearts4 жыл бұрын
tom kat no he died because of cancer, it hit me hard, when I heard about it, because I’m also a swiss filmmaker and I hoped, that I can work with him one day.
@desisdosis473Ай бұрын
"through memes" - what a disgrace to one of the most profiled European actors of the last 50 years.
@lsd-rickb-17285 жыл бұрын
Since *History Buff* hasn't done a video on it...this will do..for now
@LMSILVIA3 жыл бұрын
The fear of upsetting snowflake fans is a thing. History is history, it can't be erased by not mentioning it.
@lsd-rickb-17283 жыл бұрын
@@LMSILVIA yee
@user-kt3ti9rm1n4 жыл бұрын
Look who's back is also a movie with an brilliant Hitler actor.
@thrustvectoring81205 жыл бұрын
Bruno Ganz IS Hitler. Period. There will not be another actor playing Hitler that won't be compared to Bruno Ganz. His performance of Hitler is something that will be remembered forever and he will forever be remembered as THE Hitler. In the positive way I mean.
@dylanlaugharne90475 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure Hitler is Hitler. Recked with facts and logic
@Byezbozhnik5 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. That performance is perfect and one of the best we will ever see by any actor. I would also recommend Daniel Day Lewis' acting in There Will be Blood. Mesmerizing.
@carylackey18845 жыл бұрын
Agreed - an EXCELLENT performance. I'm curious about Ganz's accent (if any) - I've read that Hitler had a pretty recognizable Austrian accent, for the German speakers out there, did Ganz pull it off (or could you hear Ganz's Swiss accent)?
@ubaidurrehmantariq31605 жыл бұрын
Sadly he died on 16 Feb 2019
@Byezbozhnik5 жыл бұрын
@@ubaidurrehmantariq3160 Regrettable. Thanks for telling us, there was nothing in the news where I live as Bruno Ganz was not a silly mainstream Hollywood individual.
@billace905 жыл бұрын
Ruhe in Frieden, Bruno Ganz.
@Mohatheking195 жыл бұрын
rip or rif
@sylviarohge42045 жыл бұрын
@@Mohatheking19 R.I.P/RIP means "Requiescat in Pace" (Latin) = Ruhe in Frieden (German) = Rest in peace
@kim-jonaldump33715 жыл бұрын
Repose en paix in french
@eldpost4-5355 жыл бұрын
"Vila i frid" in swedish
@veryoriginalname38235 жыл бұрын
Равонаш шод in Tajik.
@terragthegreat1754 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was 9 years old in Berlin when the war ended. Watching this movie knowing that just made it all the more real. She could remember being in one of those bunkers with all the civilians and wounded soldiers. She said there was a U-boat captain in hers and everyone treated him with respect because they were so respectful of the U-boats. It's just unreal to think something like that ever happened.
@85LARGE3 жыл бұрын
Yup. And my grand grandmother was digging trenches during the siege of Leningrad. Luckily, my grandmother was safe in Odessa during the time.
@Boopathydubai Жыл бұрын
The Bunker Movie, In the Final days of World War II, Adolf Hitler's Final days (January -May 1945) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNOPhsqDxN_Gd40.html
@adambrosemann48522 жыл бұрын
This film makes you feel like your are witnessing actual history. It’s filmed as a movie but comes across as a documentary. Ganz was brilliant! Many of the actors and actresses looked very similar to their real life counterparts. The utter destruction of Nazi Germany and how it is portrayed is incredible.
@AoOniTV6 жыл бұрын
Absolutely terrifying film yet brilliant and fascinating. The acting was truly believable as you rightly said.
@megatwingo5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely terrifying film yet brilliant and fascinating. The acting was truly believable as rightly was said in the review.
@bregjejabra255 жыл бұрын
Still Propaganda
@shalindelta75 жыл бұрын
@@bregjejabra25 what propaganda ? Everything in the movie was real, the final days of hitler as it was, as per traudl. She was there and spoke of what she saw and that is presented in the film. What do you have to top that ??? and why should i believe you instead of her ???
@runi54135 жыл бұрын
@@shalindelta7 Well, not that I'd wanna be on the side of people who say it's "propaganda"... But to be fair, there have been some misgivings over Junge's testimony.For example, there are some who claim that her interactions with Hitler couldn't have been as frequent and "personal" as she proposes in her books, because according to other sources (like Göring), Hitler never actually dictated letters, or orders, to his secretaries. Instead he always wrote everything by hand, had it typed out in separate pieces (often by 3 different people), and then burned the original. Göring said that Hitler continued this strange practice despite already suffering heavily from Parkinson's, which lead to orders sometimes being loosely "interpreted" by German commanders because they didn't make any damn sense (and no one dared to tell Hitler that this was due to his illegible handwriting). Although, I should add that this came from a man who was known to be a pathological liar, and who was clearly fishing for _any_ excuse to escape the gallows at Nuremberg... But still. Of course since it's a movie, it also took some artistic liberties with the source-material. But, it made for a magnificent movie, though.
@shalindelta75 жыл бұрын
@@runi5413 yep there could have been a few things changed for the movie true. Overall i would say its as close to the real thing as we will ever know.
@inotaishu16 жыл бұрын
Yes Bruno Ganz is a swiss actor, but from the german speaking part of Switzerland and he acted in Germany since the 1960s, so no wonder he has no problem with the language. Plus at the time of this movie he had already won several awards. Sadly ever since that movie it seems that only rarely has anyone tried to portray Nazis outside of stereotypes. Germany did it from time to time but the most recent American film I have seen was Race and that one also had lots of stereotypes and outright lied about history.
@thomasroewer56736 жыл бұрын
Hitler wasn't born a German either but rather Austrian. And after becoming a German citizen he spent several years in Bavaria. So a Swiss actor might actually be closer in dialect than a German actor from Berlin or Northern Germany.
@engagementengagement88365 жыл бұрын
@@thomasroewer5673 Austrians are germans idiot
@thomasroewer56735 жыл бұрын
Austrians will tell you differently. Fitting name btw.
@engagementengagement88365 жыл бұрын
@@thomasroewer5673 congratulations you've been added to the list of idiots who think it's funny when they point out an intentionally ironic name
@thomasroewer56735 жыл бұрын
I’m sorry, but there is nothing intentionally ironic about your screen name. It is rather a perfectly fitting description of you. Not only is your statement that Austrians are Germans incorrect but the way you respond proves that you are precisely what your screen name says.
@lex19453 жыл бұрын
It's a great movie. One of the best war movies ever. Together with Das Boot and Stalingrad. Bruno Ganz was amazing. So sad he passed away.. Brilliant actor and the only one that could play this role in a believable fashion.
@willchen2k Жыл бұрын
Lex, which Stalingrad (1993 or 2013 ?). I'm guessing 1993 one cuz that's the German storyline. I haven't watched neither, but would like to, hence asking.
@johnwatson39484 жыл бұрын
Portray them as monsters and we’ll only be looking for monsters the next time around.
@scapapoodlypaddledoo48473 жыл бұрын
sounds like a quote. "Portray them as monsters, and we'll only be looking for monsters the next time around. - John Watson, 2020
@ohauss3 жыл бұрын
The late Marcel Reich-Ranicki, himself a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and one of post-war Germany's most prominent literature critics remarked, hearing of the "criticism" that the movie portrayed Hitler as a human being "As what should they have portrayed him instead? An elephant?"
@kosmokritikos92996 ай бұрын
And the next time around has arrived in the U.S., though very few know it yet.
@kimmolaine80695 жыл бұрын
This one is a rare 10/10.
@peterwarden74714 жыл бұрын
This one is a simple copy of "der letzte Akt" von 1955 .......
@grevberg4 жыл бұрын
Try "The lives of Others" About a STASI agent.
@SicSeb4 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@rodholseth63545 жыл бұрын
The scene where the Göbbels killed their children is so well done and so terrifying. I get teared up every time I watch it.
@rodholseth63545 жыл бұрын
@Chicha 17 I am from Iceland. My people wouldn't have done anything.
@rodholseth63545 жыл бұрын
@Chicha 17 Except maybe help them...
@DrSabot-A5 жыл бұрын
@Chicha 17 Russians held Berlin, not the US; What's your point?
@basil72923 жыл бұрын
@书中自有黄金屋 shut up chinese nazi lmao
@Aussiemarco3 жыл бұрын
By writing this comment you’ve ruined it for anyone who hasn’t seen this movie. Congratulations.
@NeoDragonKnight4 жыл бұрын
I saw the movie with my brother in Toronto back in 04, and I was blown away at how good it was. It was haunting, and "too real", when Hitler was screaming in what we now know as the Hitler Meme, I really felt like I was being scolded and yelled at. It is a testament to Ganz's performance.
@frankteunissen61183 жыл бұрын
How Bruno Ganz didn’t get the Oscar for best actor that year I do not understand.
@fredferd9655 жыл бұрын
In recent times, the Germans have produced at least three extremely accurate war films. In all of them, they have achieved high accuracy. Their goal was to achieve historical accuracy, and they have done it well. The films are, of course, Downfall, Das Boot, and Stalingrad. Well done!
@sualtam95095 жыл бұрын
To conclude your list "Die Brücke" the original version from the 50's (NEVER watch the remake!) about teenagers who a recruited for suicide mission to defend a bridge against the allies.
@michaelbruns4492 жыл бұрын
Ever see The Tin Drum from 1979?
@Leon_der_Luftige6 жыл бұрын
I appreciate any WW2 movie that isn't bluntly going for a "Germans are bad and stupid, mkay?" theme. Me and many other Germans are so tired by this imagine being transported in movies. Today, many many people just think Germans are bad people in general because of false information being carried on in history. So much went wrong all around the world in the 20th century. It's all so incredibly more complicated than that. There were extremist governments everywhere on the planet... This massive tragedy could happen anytime again to any country. And I'm very certain lots of other people will agree to this.
@shockwave22916 жыл бұрын
Cian McCabe I agree with both of you. Give it time and people will eventually forgive and move on. Main reason the horrors of WW2 is still fresh in people's minds is because many people who lived during the war are still alive. The reaction to WWI was very similar too, many people disavowed the Germans after that war (even if they weren't the ones to start it) but 100 years later it's just general history and nothing else.
@alfredcollins25585 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Under the right circumstances what happened in Germany could have happened anywhere.The power and sophistication of Germany was what made it so earthshaking. And if Germany had won the spin on what happened would have been different. Stalin is still grudgingly admired by a lot of people.
@Knards5 жыл бұрын
I am 68. My Dad went to war in WW2 and come in contact with many German soldiers. As I was growing up, I never heard him speak badly of those men. To him they were simply men like himself who spoke a different language. But that generation has almost all died off, and for the most foolish reasons we all will start over
@Knards5 жыл бұрын
they are very old and dying off more and more every day
@TheDutchMitchell5 жыл бұрын
Both sides were wrong. The western allies terrorbombing German cities is also a warcrime. Sadly no one got convicted of that.
@angelusvastator12974 жыл бұрын
I wished more movies were like this. Incredible and deep masterpiece that has stuck with popular culture for so long.
@johnsml18974 жыл бұрын
If hitler had seen this film, he would definitely pinned a medal to Bruno Ganz.
@nerdothn8924 жыл бұрын
Idk the movie doesn't show Hitler in a good light so I guess he would be pissed
@kriserauw59703 жыл бұрын
an iron cross.
@bochica35623 жыл бұрын
Johns, that's the real tragedy behind this movie - that poor Hitler never got to see it... 🤦♂️
@barrybeebenson81023 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of when a double agent working for Britain ended up being so good at giving false information about where the d-day landings would be that he got awarded an iron cross for his service
@johnsml18973 жыл бұрын
@@bochica3562 yeah😭
@strategicperson956 жыл бұрын
I've always been interested in this film. And I really don't understand people that have a problem with showing Hitler as a human being. All beings are capable of making morally good or bad decisions. Evil is not some mythological entity that doesn't exist like some horror monster, the potential to commit evil acts is in all people and should not be shied away from. As you said, to make Hitler a monster makes him and Nazism look more storybook and less real that it leaves people open to falling into an ideology just as bad, if not worse than Nazism because of someone that comes off as intelligent and having all those aspects that make them seem like a good leader. I really should watch this film; not just because it is a good movie but a good historical one at that. Something that I should really look at due to my interest in World War 2 history.
@tilltronje16234 жыл бұрын
They have a problem with it because they cannot accept the fact that they could be just like him
@awadallahabdalla92365 жыл бұрын
“DAS WAR EIN BEFEHL“
@HeadsetHatGuy4 жыл бұрын
Der Angriff Steiners war ein BEFEHL!
@blitzkrupp85834 жыл бұрын
"Wir Sind Sie!"
@HeadsetHatGuy4 жыл бұрын
Dass Sie es wagen, sich meinem Befehl zu widersetzen?
@ITILII4 жыл бұрын
Der krieg ist verloren !
@ZearthGJL4 жыл бұрын
Mein Führer ich kann nicht zulassen, dass sie Soldaten, die für Sie verbluten…
@ruwailali85425 жыл бұрын
Bruno Ganz as Hitler Heath Ledger as Joker Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper These people were absolutely perfect for their roles.
@shaungaming75314 жыл бұрын
Gary Oldman as Dracula
@johnburns96344 жыл бұрын
@@shaungaming7531 His performance as Sid Vicious was very good.
@ingen60514 жыл бұрын
Sean Connery as James Bond.
@Darko_CC4 жыл бұрын
Kim Shaun Escolta Gary Oldman as Viktor Reznov
@yingphokonyak43494 жыл бұрын
Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln. One of the best portrayal.
@mikebeatty78143 жыл бұрын
Ganz is perfection in this movie. Nobody will ever play that role even close to his performance.
@aee220phmunirabad5 жыл бұрын
One scene I love so much is.... When Hitler and Eva are going into room just before suicide. Then, Gobbels wife came and requests and begs security guard for last meeting with Hitler. She begs Hitler to leave Berlin. But, Hitler denies her request. This is is one of the iconic scenes in history of cinemas.
@jondeare4 жыл бұрын
It was a good scene. The whole movie is a good scene.
@MrJoebrooklyn19694 жыл бұрын
But some say Hitler did escape.
@AA-jp9cj3 жыл бұрын
@@MrJoebrooklyn1969 Even IF he did, he is long dead now...or is he?
@Msitujani3 жыл бұрын
@@MrJoebrooklyn1969 some say the earth is flat.
@MrJoebrooklyn19693 жыл бұрын
@@Msitujani and some say Socialism can still work.
@samaclause34675 жыл бұрын
Rip Bruno Ganz
@Savman14174 жыл бұрын
I had never heard of Bruno Ganz, but his performance in Downfall was totally compelling. It it such a shame he has left us now. Rest in peace Bruno.
@TooLooze4 жыл бұрын
If the movie weren't so riveting, the memes wouldn't be so funny.
@LieutenantSilver6 жыл бұрын
I remember when this movie came out some "reviewers" were criticizing a lack of judgmental condemnation. As if that were the movie's job in the first place. Well now we know what came of these moral busybodies...
@ohauss5 жыл бұрын
Actually, the polish-born German literature critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, himself a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, mocked the people who complained that Hitler was portrayed "as a human being", stating "As what should he be portrayed then? An elephant?"
@les07derEroberer5 жыл бұрын
NEIN, ICH NEHME DIESEN PREIS NICHT AN!
@MichaelSummer5936 жыл бұрын
Finally someone who shares the same views on this movie like me. I am not alone in this world anymore.
@HappisakVideos5 жыл бұрын
Me too I agree, one of the best WW2 films ever made.
@irfanf39625 жыл бұрын
I agree
@65tosspowertrapl365 жыл бұрын
Yes, a film I own on DVD and have watched many times.
@Bart8485 жыл бұрын
Definitely one of the best war flims ever,I bought on dvd years ago,a still watch,performances are amazing especiallyBruno ganz as hilter is one of the best ever
@DarkLight7535 жыл бұрын
@@HappisakVideos Downfall is bloody awesome. I think Das Boot is better though.
@paulshri8609 Жыл бұрын
Agree absolutely 100%. Bruno Ganz truly deserved an Oscar for his performance. In my top ten movies.
@Johan_Liebert___ Жыл бұрын
Both him and Ralph Fiennes were robbed.
@chrismath1494 жыл бұрын
Understanding my own capability to do evil is the most terrifying thing that ever happened to me.
@tilltronje16234 жыл бұрын
But argueably the single most important one
@captainpoppleton3 жыл бұрын
There is no such as good and evil. There is only flesh. (paraphrasing Hellraiser)
@DPops-yf4zp5 жыл бұрын
Downfall truly is a masterpiece. You should also cover the 1993 film, "Stalingrad". Arguably one of the best WW2 films ever made. Extremely authentic, and realistic. It would make an amazing companion piece to Downfall.
@jasonsullivan74624 жыл бұрын
Fun fact one of the main characters in Stalingrad also plays the role of the German officer at the end of “the pianist”
@pashvonderc3814 жыл бұрын
@@jasonsullivan7462 and also stars,again, as a German officer in the 2015(?) Stalingrad re-make.
@JKhyway4 жыл бұрын
Thomas Kretschmann was in Stalingrad (1993 and 2013), Downfall, The Pianist, Valkyrie, and many more ww2 movies, he is a great actor and I wouldn’t be surprised if he kept one of the uniforms.
@AnimatedStoriesWorldwide3 жыл бұрын
LOL I love it when stupid people like a movie, know almost nothing about history and immediately brand it as realistic and historical. Next on too dumb to be unbiased: "I like ice-cream, so it's healthy!"
@Conor_Murray3 жыл бұрын
Al Koholik you seem like an arsehole
@du_nut_tuch_me42305 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Bruno Ganz (1941-2019)
@magistrumartium4 жыл бұрын
No actor has ever embodied the character of Hitler as well as Bruno Ganz did. "Downfall" is one hell of a movie.
@TheAustrianAnimations874 жыл бұрын
Easily my favourite movie about WW2. It's sad that Bruno Ganz died 1 year ago, but we will never forgot that legend.
@PuddintameXYZ5 жыл бұрын
The great things about making villains human is that it's the way reality is. It's easy to make your enemies cartoonish, in real life and fiction. It's more terrifying exactly because it is more realistic.
@dimas38295 жыл бұрын
I would argue that there are some indeed caricature villains out there (especially in shitholes of Africa). Germany was exception, not the rule - it was civilized country so it annihilated countless people is style.
@dimas38295 жыл бұрын
@MinutemanSam there is, like African pirates with half-rotten AK-47 who are half dead from malnutrition anyway. Life of a human being is no more worthy than life of a fly in Africa and South America. You are too used to your western privileges to know worse. There is no protagonists there except UN troops and celebrities occasionally picking up the best child the shithole can offer.
@RohnJayMiller Жыл бұрын
The most important thing about portraying civilians as they were at a human scale is so we--today--cannot push them away and say, "well we'd never do that!" The point of the film is the people today might dismiss Hitler as an aberrant human, when he was very human, and the result was all the more monstrous because ordinary people--like me?--went along!
@RohnJayMiller Жыл бұрын
Meant "Hitler" not "civilians"
@theelusive96256 жыл бұрын
Amazing film and can't believe it lost the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. The true mastery were the scenes of Hitler breaking down in sorrow and the cult of personally which surrounded him. Brilliant filmmaking.
@PIFFthePUFF4205 жыл бұрын
Zero chance a film about Hitler that doesn't demonize him will win an award in Jewish run Oscars .. just saying
5 жыл бұрын
It didn't fit the propaganda..
@MaFo823 жыл бұрын
Of the smaller roles in the film I would like to mention Corinna Harfouch who was excellent as Magda Goebbels. The scene where she leaves the bedroom of her children after having murdered them and walks over to a table and starts to frantically shuffle a deck of cards with a blank face expression is just perfect.
@newshound25217 ай бұрын
Apparently true that she played cards after.
@jeroenl83523 жыл бұрын
When you watch the movie you really feel it. When everyone in the bunker killed themselves and the silence came, I've never felt such an emptiness...
@freedom_born3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking like "What am I gonna do now?" Nobody's left
@Youbetternowatchthis5 жыл бұрын
As a German I can only say: Great video! I think the importance of understanding how Nazism came to be is still of utmost importance. It can happen again (with it i mean a horrible ideology taking over a country). Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland
@beback_5 жыл бұрын
@@1982kinger as if there is such a thing.
@camerondaniels94625 жыл бұрын
Youbetternowatchthis Liebe Grüße aus Amerika!
@Mandred855 жыл бұрын
@@1982kinger look at that nazi baby cry XD
@powskier5 жыл бұрын
You’re right. Nazism is socialism and socialism is clearly on the rise. All that is needed is the next Hitler.
@Mandred855 жыл бұрын
@@powskierthat's dumb, you're dumb! Nazism is socialism XD sure bro.
@mr_wildschwein6 жыл бұрын
this film has been criticized in Germany for portraying Adolf Hitler as a real human, not as a monster or robot... brilliant movie, way ahead of its time
@lookingforanickname5 жыл бұрын
This is not quite correct. Apart from the BILD-Zeitung, which also only used the "How could they have done this"-angle as a point of raising attention about the movie, there was no major criticism about the portrayal of Hitler as a human being after the movie came out. Criticisms was made about other things, such as making Lara portray Junge wondering through the movie with wide eyed bewilderment all the time, giving Speer the decent role (in his one appearance in the film), that he had given himself in his inaccurate autobiography and the fact that all the major nazis like Hitler and Goebbels get the decency of an off-screen death, as if the camera accepts that these characters would rather be alone in these intensely private moments (although Hirschbiegel mostly did this because in these moments the actual historical events are not quite clear and he wanted to avoid discussions about these specific details). The criticism about portraying Hitler as a human being mostly came beforehand, while the movie was made and, to be fair, was for a large part, spawned by the production company itself to create publucity. Bernd Eichinger was quite a genius when it came to igniting discussions about potential controversial aspects in his movies, mostly hand in hand with BILD. After the movie came out, Bruno Ganz was almost universally lauded in Germany for his portrayal and the sucject of whether or not Hitler could be portrayed like that quickly died down. If anything, as I witnessed it, the question was more a point of discussion, when the movie came to English-speaking countries, but even there it was mostly just raised as an opener for discussions about the qualities of the movie.
@ohauss5 жыл бұрын
Actually, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, himself a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, stated "As what should he be portrayed then? An elephant?"
@t.g.52585 жыл бұрын
Thats just not true, you arent german speaking right?
@DarkImplement5 жыл бұрын
But if you follow the movie and Hitler's monologues, dialogues and behavior, you clearly see how a monster he is. He's not portrayed much as a human... or at least doesn't give a human impression...
@lookingforanickname5 жыл бұрын
@@t.g.5258 I am and have been for as long as I have been able to speak. What makes you think that I don't speak German?
@chrisd20514 жыл бұрын
I completely agree, though I have to add in. When the boy's father reprimands the children in the HJ and tells them to go home and stop playing war is one of my favorite scenes. It shows the disconnect between the young ideologically driven youth and the older, jaded realistic veterans.
@Gigipretty644 жыл бұрын
The Goebbles children part of this film haunted me for ages after I first watched it.
@Westmeath215 жыл бұрын
Movie is a solid Nein/10 for me
@massineben71985 жыл бұрын
I am führerious. And honnestly, Anne Frankly offended.
@KRAFTWERK2K65 жыл бұрын
hahahahaha oh jew.... ;)
@halfwit5335 жыл бұрын
@@massineben7198 lol I did *nazi* that coming. I *gas* I'll just leave.
@dongchankim24175 жыл бұрын
NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN!!!
@DavidLopez-up3qm5 жыл бұрын
Bloody hell 😂😂
@podemosurss83165 жыл бұрын
3:54 Well, Hitler wasn't German either, he was Austrian.
@polishherowitoldpilecki55215 жыл бұрын
That’s still German, he’s ethnically German.
@jakobfeitzinger95875 жыл бұрын
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 c'mon
@lunarcultist62145 жыл бұрын
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 Always the same thing. When someone speaks of German unity: "Austrians are a completely different, independent people!" When someone says that Hitler was Austrian: "NO HE WAS GERMAN"
@polishherowitoldpilecki55215 жыл бұрын
Herman Urus I really don’t have anything against Austria and Germany uniting. Their both Germanic peoples to me. I’m pretty sure it’s patriotic Austrians that argue that their different.
@elevate1415 жыл бұрын
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 (I'm canadian so I can't speak for all Austrians but I have met a large range of them as I'm the first in my dads family side born in canada) all of my Austrian family thinks that Germans and Austrians are separate culturally. most of them and the other family's and communities I've been think of themselves of Austrians. A lot of my family agree they are ethnically german too though.
@alitlweird2 жыл бұрын
The fall of Berlin is easily one of the most dramatic and profound events in world history. And this film perfectly captures the drama and the tension and the anxiety in that bunker.
@vatsmith8759 Жыл бұрын
Surely the fall of Constantinople had a far more profound effect on world history.
@marccru Жыл бұрын
200,000 dead so Hitler and Goebbels could have a few extra nights in the bunker. There was no reason for this battle to ever take place.
@JH-lo9ut10 ай бұрын
One of the most dramatic and profound events in recent history. But as terrible as it was, there are many battles, sieges, falls of great cities, that can compete for the title. The fall of Assyria. The destruction of Carthage. The sacking of Rome. The sacking of Baghdad. The fall of Constantinople. The fall of Tenochtitlán. The rape of Nanking. The Siege of Leningrad. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... To mention a few. And these are just cities...
@alitlweird10 ай бұрын
@@JH-lo9ut no doubt.
@lostbladder3 жыл бұрын
As a history undergraduate, I love this movie. It is refreshing to see the leaders of the Reich portrayed as people and not just as cartoonish villains, as even in my subject of choice they often are, not just in film. They are not one dimensional characters for use in a story. They were real people. It is important to see people, even those who have done awful things, as people. This is true in history, as in philosophy, and as in psychology. This film is an excellent example of a perspective which I would love to be replicated in future films. Unfortunately, I do not foresee that happening any time soon. To portray men with conviction and reason as monsters who do only for evil is to do a grand disservice to our species. How can we prevent needless repetition of disaster if we know only the result and not the stepping stones and reason that came before?
@pikopiko31495 жыл бұрын
My father actually is in "Der Untergang/Downfall" (2:45 he's the one on the far left, 6:25 front row in black uniform), so I heared a few stories from set. What always fascinated me about this film is the incredible attention to detail. You can feel the authensity every scene, every frame and every second. They made sure everything, from the mannerism to the fabric of the clothes is as close to reality as possible. Everybody was working so hard to make this movie, because they understood the importance of it and I think it really shows. It's truly a masterpiece, in my opinion. Thank you for the video, great work.
@Crashed1319635 жыл бұрын
They achieved what they were after. Great work.
@hypernova35275 жыл бұрын
I'm not gonna lie to you, one of the things why I watched it was because of the famous meme, but what a good decision I made.
@DrewPicklesTheDark5 жыл бұрын
Same
@corriepitt76303 жыл бұрын
Every high school student should be required to watch and discuss “Downfall”, “Sophie Scholl”, and the much earlier “Die Brücke” (The Bridge) with the brilliant Fritz Wepper as one of a group of high school kids torn from their mothers and forced into the last gasp defense of their homeland. Tragic. Haunting, all three.
@maxheadshot32874 жыл бұрын
As a german movie it's unbelievably good, accurate and courageous.
@vermontythehillbilly28385 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Bruno Ganz.
@bloody312345 жыл бұрын
I'm german and I remember watching this movie in the cinema with my school, truly remarkable work for sure.
@roxy55884 жыл бұрын
Downfall is one of my favourite movies of all time! It’s phenomenal. ❤️
@jeffmarlatt65384 жыл бұрын
This film received only a single Oscar nomination. It was in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. Which believe it or not, it didn't even win. But it deserved multiple nominations actually though. It should have received nominations in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay & especially for Bruno Ganz either as Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor whichever would be most appropriate. This film is a masterpiece.
@josefstalin33945 жыл бұрын
Still waiting for my movie.
@thebigsloop95155 жыл бұрын
What about the death of Stalin?
@nstice15 жыл бұрын
Hey Uncle Joe! You won’t get one we still love you here in America!
@therealvladimirlenin80725 жыл бұрын
Josef Stalin- Same
@CRegensche1n5 жыл бұрын
Everyone should get his own movie!!
@AlpenSkyWatcher5 жыл бұрын
Not One Step Back
@oblivionboy5 жыл бұрын
RIP Bruno 😪 Legends never die Like if you agree
@optimisticdork83804 жыл бұрын
The first time I actually saw this film was when I was about 10 or so, and I remember wondering, "How in the world did they videotape Hitler and his entourage with colorization?"
@everettstrait3113 жыл бұрын
Dude there is nudity in it and suicide why would you watch it when ur ten
@everettstrait3113 жыл бұрын
Great movie btw
@solus86852 жыл бұрын
@@everettstrait311 as a 10 yr old they prolly didn't know what the movie was even about
@runenummedal69572 жыл бұрын
Color film was actually invented by this time. Although it was very expensive and not in widespread use. But color film clips of Hitler actually exists.
@alistairgeorge5082Ай бұрын
@@everettstrait311 They can handle seeing a few nipples. The suicides I can understand.
@Wolverine68773 жыл бұрын
I screened this film when I was a projectionist. I hated screening it, not because it was a bad film but because it was so realistic and terrifying. It is an amazing film and needed to be made. Film making at its finest.
@Conenion5 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Bruno Ganz. One of the best actors I have ever seen.
@lionelraoul5 жыл бұрын
Ganz deserved an Oscar nomination for this film.
@peterbird29185 жыл бұрын
Yes he should of but they give Oscars to trailer trash now
@chetmanly46203 жыл бұрын
Stumbled across the channel, and man am I impressed with how mature and down to earth this review was. Definitely gonna check out more!
@joribremer52603 жыл бұрын
Bruno Gantz deserved an oscar..
@neilgriffiths64275 жыл бұрын
If you look at recordings of Hitler's speeches today, with wild arm gestures, shouting, grand claims, he looks like an obvious madman, people today get the impression we could always spot someone like him, the Germans of the 1920's were fools not to spot it. However, two important points: one is that Hitler usually got more passionate towards the end, the climax, of his speeches - and these are generally the only bits we see today in most documentaries. Secondly, even politicians from democracies did very similar things - if you look at speeches made by people like Lloyd-George (British PM during and after WWI) and many others, they wave their arms, shake their fists, shout at the microphone - they look crazy as well, from a 21st-Century perspective. Downfall is a great window into the past, that few films or even documentaries get close to, outstanding.
@neilgriffiths64275 жыл бұрын
Marcel Huchwajda Agreed, the content is execrable - not the point I was making.
@hkazu635 жыл бұрын
It’s only really softened slightly. People react to passion, after all. It’s often said that it doesn’t matter what you say, as long as you show passion for it. Annoying, of course, to flog the dead horse, but look at Donald Trump; he may not flail and shake his fists as they did, but he still talks with his hands, he’s an expressive orator. And then consider how he won against a very muted, calm and inexpressive presidential candidate. Passion breeds a sense of trust and honesty, where such unemotional oration is likely to breed distrust and discontent.
@brodaviing66175 жыл бұрын
Neil Griffiths Many of the things he said appealed to many people, it wasn't just hand gestures and confidence. His words made sense to many and well, as soon as they got the power they crushed their opposition.
@ernesttreagus38355 жыл бұрын
Hitler became chancellor of Germany within the 'democatic' process of the ballot box and Hindenberg invited Hitler to form a government. Up to that point the normal checks and balances limited what he could do from the Bunderstag. Hitler then set about circumventing the checks and balances, to have the german people to swear allegiance to Hitler rather than the German state or other state organisation. Hitler gradually bullied, threatened, bashed and even had murdered, any who opposed him or his political philosophy. All of us are always potentially in a similar position unless we all monitor and protect our own institutions. So get involved.
@EnDSchultz15 жыл бұрын
It's a powerful and common oration trick. Start off shouting and waving your arms, and you'll turn people off because you look deranged. Start off rational, mellow, and soft spoken, but slowly amp up the energy as the speech progresses and the audience gets more involved, impassioned, and swept up in the spectacle.
@Lazer-bp9lf5 жыл бұрын
RIP Bruno Ganz. You were truly one of the best actors ever.
@eventide27634 жыл бұрын
Watching Downfall while high on LSD when I was in college about 15 years ago was an experience I will never forget. This movie definitely in my top 5 of all time (have seen it probably 50 times, sober!)
@wodidos2 жыл бұрын
why would you do that? lol
@LeeRenthlei5 ай бұрын
The rant scene and "Steiner's counterattack" meme made it popular again, it's probably more popular today than it's release back in the day.
@johans31645 жыл бұрын
RIP The Great Bruno Ganz
@davidtanycoed5 жыл бұрын
Yes I agree, also worth mentioning, the english subtitles are very easy to read, in-fact, you don't realise that you are actually reading them. Hearing the film in the German language obviously adds to the realism. Certainly would not of worked had it been made in english
@sh2309682 жыл бұрын
When I finished watching this movie for the first time, I saw my face in the mirror and said to myself with a smile full of awe that this has been a great movie. One of the best ever made.
@kenwalker6877 ай бұрын
You have convince me to buy the film. I hope in English subtitles.
@sh2309687 ай бұрын
@@kenwalker687 Please make sure you get the movie with English subtitles. I did. Otherwise, I would still be learning German. To be honest, it is due to watch again. I will, soon.
@wtfudoinghere3 жыл бұрын
When I move out on my own, I'm going to start a large movie collection, and no joke Downfall is gonna be at the top of my list, this movie is one of the best historical films ever made, idc what anyone says.
@rasplez98895 жыл бұрын
1/10, needs more black cyborg lesbians.
@doktorhans41345 жыл бұрын
Don't forget moon indians and asteroid Eskimos!
@Hordalending5 жыл бұрын
Movie definitely needs more minorities in prominent roles. More diversity and strong independent womyn in business suits.
@chairmanofrussia5 жыл бұрын
The fuck? Strawman Central Here.
@pumpkinpie82355 жыл бұрын
You are “uneducated”
@parthiancapitalist27335 жыл бұрын
Der Kernspalter XD
@devindevon5 жыл бұрын
Still holds up after 14 WHOLE YEARS!!! O my gawd, that's such a long time.
@Siptom3693 жыл бұрын
No wonder this movie sparked so many memes around it.
@janfg15783 жыл бұрын
I recommend the movie "Come And See" directed by Soviet filmmaker Elem Klimov. It shows the war highly accurate and drastic from eastern europe perspective through the eyes of two children.
@kooltom42 жыл бұрын
Extraordinary film, so traumatising to see for that reason. Absolutely horrifying to feel the reality of what's portrayed.
@ravagetime6 жыл бұрын
A depressing film. The ending is bittersweet.
@LeftFootMediaNZ6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it really was a metaphor for the future of Germany and the hope that allowed them to survive such a brutal evil.
@GrandMasterAbe6 жыл бұрын
ravagetime Soviet army came in and rape the women just like today. Yeah, bittersweet indeed.
@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation5 жыл бұрын
Well, that's WW2 for ya
@leontrotsky92685 жыл бұрын
Yung Biz sorry I don’t understand what are you saying?
@leontrotsky92685 жыл бұрын
Yung Biz are you saying that Russian people are still invading Germany? What?
@ellenwade106 жыл бұрын
Great movie. It shows how a cultured nation can be brought to destruction. You have sympathy for the German civilians. The scene of all these people and German soldiers underneath the Reichstag is very powerful. You see law and order completely breakdown with as and mps rampaging through the city killing civilians because they could not fight. The military also turned on each other. Most difficult scene for me was the scene of magda gobbles killing her 6 children because she did not want them growing up in world without Nazism. Incrediable fanaticism and narcissistism. Deeply moving and disturbing. Great film.
@SchmulKrieger5 жыл бұрын
Narcissistism? What the Heck is that? You mean narcissism? But how do you get along with that?
@lupus38245 жыл бұрын
15th generation holocaust survivor Not necessarily, there actually was a suicide wave because many people could not imagine to live in a Germany without Htiler, not much to do with soviets. And I'm pretty sure Goebbels status in the Nazi Regime would have given him and his family pretty much immunity from everything except the oncoming Nürnberg trial.
@ausaskar5 жыл бұрын
Dedicated Nazis did commit suicide on the Western front but the common people just stayed calm and went along with things. The Eastern Front was like the apocalypse, divisions destroyed themselves to buy time for civilians to flee west, women were drowning themselves in rivers. Entire cities of old men and young boys took up arms to delay the russians by any means necessary.
@kaletovhangar5 жыл бұрын
@@nstice1 They shouldn't have went into USSR like a freaking exterminators then.Red army soldiers then wouldn't carry a wrath and revenge for burned cities,villages and dead compatriots and family.
@Ubu9875 жыл бұрын
Bullshit. Magda Goebbels could have surrendered to the Americans and got protection for herself and her children. That was her privilege. The millions of ordinary citizens had no such protection from the Soviet savagery.
@SicSeb4 жыл бұрын
It's one of the best, most realistic war films I've ever seen
@ellemarr72342 жыл бұрын
Incredible film. I had to stop myself and remember I’m watching a film and not a documentary. One of the most troublesome fallacies the west perpetuates is that Hitler and the nazis were sociopathic mad men. Some were, but Hitler wasn’t. That’s the most chilling thing for me.
@oron6110 ай бұрын
They were sociopaths, yes. They were mad, yes. They were men. But they weren't sociopathic madmen. They were not purely selfish, they could justify what matched their interest, and they could take interest in what was justified before them. Most of them at some point were thoughtful, sincere, and wanted to make the world a better place. And that is the deep horror of this film.