Downfall

Downfall

6.5. 21:13
HRT 2
154 minutes
2004
Drama / Historical / War

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

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2004
Drama / Historical / War

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

Creators

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Cast

Christian Berkel, Bruno Ganz, Fabian Busch, Tanja Schleiff, Henning Peker, André Hennicke, Bohdan Graczyk, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Anna Thalbach, Thomas Thieme, Birgit Minichmayr, Rolf Kanies, Dirk Borchardt, Thomas Limpinsel, Michael Mendl, Karl Kranzkowski, Christian Redl, Justus von Dohnányi, Michael Brandner, Alexandra Maria Lara, Matthias Habich, Götz Otto, Ulrich Matthes, Michael Kind, Heino Ferch, Oliver Stritzel, Thomas Kretschmann, Julia Jentsch, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Noethen, Alexander Held, Juliane Köhler, Donevan Gunia, Devid Striesow, Dieter Mann, Bettina Redlich, Heinrich Schmieder, Dietrich Hollinderbäumer, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Thorsten Krohn, Jürgen Tonkel, Christian Hoening, Igor Bubenchikov, Martin Butzke, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Mathias Gnädinger, Norbert Heckner, Enno Hesse, Elisabeth von Koch, Konstantin Lukashov, Stefan Mehren, Katerina Poladjan, Christian Schmidt, August Schmölzer, Jurij Schrader, Mariya Semyonova, Igor Sergeev, Klaus-Jürgen Steinmann, Veit Stübner, Vsevolod Tsurilo, Dieter Rupp, Andrey Blagoslovenskiy, Valeriy Salomakhin