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US Mall 1 - Downfall
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List Price: $14.94
Our Price: $8.00
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
Directed By: Oliver Hirschbiegel
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404987609
Format: AC-3
ISBN: 1404987606
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2005-08-02
Running Time: 155
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Summary: Absolutely superb film!
Comment: If you are at all interested in history (and you should be), this film is required viewing. In no other film have I seen the power that Hitler apparently held over seemingly rational people depicted so convincingly. Also, the level of attention devoted to the sets and costumes is amazing. The uniforms, weapons, buildings, all authentic. You feel as if you are there in wartime Germany. Ironically, many of the street scenes were filmed in St. Petersburg, Russia. The acting is on a level rarely seen anywhere. Bruno Ganz makes you forget that you are watching an actor and simply puts Hitler before you as a believable person rather than as a caricature or stereotype. The supporting cast is equally impressive. See this film. It is, in my opinion, one of the best films ever made about World War II.
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Summary: Downfall Review
Comment: This film is a well-crafted description of the final period of the Nazi Reich. The realism was heightened by the dialogue being in German, and there were enough vignettes during the film showing with awful accuracy the brutality of the war. In some ways I found this film "got you" at a more frightening psychological level than Saving Private Ryan. In some ways there is no comparison between the two. Highly recommended.
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Summary: The best german movie of our times
Comment: I saw this excellent german movie, here in Brazil.Since the times of Leni Reifensthal,decades ago, no other german movie was so good, as this amazing movie.
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Summary: Superb Docudrama
Comment: Downfall
This is a gripping depiction of the end of Hitler and the Third Reich; somewhat harrowing in places, but a great film.
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Summary: Rarely Ever Give 5 Stars but this was Deserving
Comment: I recorded this one night off of HBO (or was it Showtime). I saw the description and thought it sounded interesting. The movie started at 1:00am and I had planned to go to bed and watch it later. I saw the first few minutes and ending up being awake past 3:00am as I could not stop watching. Now to be fair I love movies of this genre but if this was half as good I would still have loved it. My wife hates these type of movies however and it took a lot of convincing to get her to watch the next night. She hates war moves and really hates movies with subtitles. With that being said she loved this move. I ended up purchasing this movie as well.
I think it was the human depiction of the characters that made it so good. I defiantly did not feel sorry for Hitler after watching this however the lower rank soldiers and civilians were much easier to have sympathy for. I believe the tone of the movie highlighted how easily normal people can fall in line behind a mad man who in better times might have seemed more like a savior and then suffer terrible consequences for their blindness.
Didn't mean to get long winded here and will cut it short as there really is so much more I could say about this movie. This really does deserve 5 stars.
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Summary: Absolutely superb film!
Comment: If you are at all interested in history (and you should be), this film is required viewing. In no other film have I seen the power that Hitler apparently held over seemingly rational people depicted so convincingly. Also, the level of attention devoted to the sets and costumes is amazing. The uniforms, weapons, buildings, all authentic. You feel as if you are there in wartime Germany. Ironically, many of the street scenes were filmed in St. Petersburg, Russia. The acting is on a level rarely seen anywhere. Bruno Ganz makes you forget that you are watching an actor and simply puts Hitler before you as a believable person rather than as a caricature or stereotype. The supporting cast is equally impressive. See this film. It is, in my opinion, one of the best films ever made about World War II.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Downfall Review
Comment: This film is a well-crafted description of the final period of the Nazi Reich. The realism was heightened by the dialogue being in German, and there were enough vignettes during the film showing with awful accuracy the brutality of the war. In some ways I found this film "got you" at a more frightening psychological level than Saving Private Ryan. In some ways there is no comparison between the two. Highly recommended.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The best german movie of our times
Comment: I saw this excellent german movie, here in Brazil.Since the times of Leni Reifensthal,decades ago, no other german movie was so good, as this amazing movie.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Superb Docudrama
Comment: Downfall
This is a gripping depiction of the end of Hitler and the Third Reich; somewhat harrowing in places, but a great film.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Rarely Ever Give 5 Stars but this was Deserving
Comment: I recorded this one night off of HBO (or was it Showtime). I saw the description and thought it sounded interesting. The movie started at 1:00am and I had planned to go to bed and watch it later. I saw the first few minutes and ending up being awake past 3:00am as I could not stop watching. Now to be fair I love movies of this genre but if this was half as good I would still have loved it. My wife hates these type of movies however and it took a lot of convincing to get her to watch the next night. She hates war moves and really hates movies with subtitles. With that being said she loved this move. I ended up purchasing this movie as well.
I think it was the human depiction of the characters that made it so good. I defiantly did not feel sorry for Hitler after watching this however the lower rank soldiers and civilians were much easier to have sympathy for. I believe the tone of the movie highlighted how easily normal people can fall in line behind a mad man who in better times might have seemed more like a savior and then suffer terrible consequences for their blindness.
Didn't mean to get long winded here and will cut it short as there really is so much more I could say about this movie. This really does deserve 5 stars.
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