I saw this film yesterday. I must say that I don\'t understand the comments made in the review above, suggesting that this film depicts a more "human" Hitler. To me there is nothing at all of a revisionist nature in this film. The Hitler depicted here is exactly the way I understood him from the books I\'ve read, and I think this follows the generally accepted theories about his personality and his motivations. There is nothing really new or surprising here. He is not somehow more human in this film, unless you always believed he was a cartoon character prior to this.
If you\'ve read anything about him, you already knew that he was caring and appreciative to certain people in his life (and his dog), but utterly ruthless and brutal with others, including those he accused of betraying him. He was always teetering on the edge of insanity, and that\'s the way he was depicted here. The scenes in the last 1/3 of the film, where he\'s enthusiastically telling his subordinates about how Berlin would be rescued by armies which did not exist seemed especially familiar to me. I remember reading about things like that in Albert Speer\'s book.
Beyond that, I would say it was a worthwhile picture. It was very well acted, and photographed, and as a history student, it\'s interesting to see one version of those final hours on the last day played out dramatically. No one really knows exactly how Hitler and Goebbels went out, because there were no witnesses from the bunker at that point in time. I think the burning of the corpses is somewhat theoretical too, but that\'s generally accepted by most. The Russians found burned bodies, but couldn\'t identify them, if I remember correctly.
Topic: Der Untergang - showing a more humane Hitler. (Read 760 times)