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Der Untergang (2004)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 9/14

DowF
9/14: How I got suckered into seeing Der Untergang (German for Downfall) was by watching a few of Hitler parody videos on YouTube and wondering which film was that from.

The YouTube stuff is funny, but unfortunately, this movie is a waste of time. I already saw Hitler: The Last Ten Days and The Bunker with Alec Guinness and Anthony Hopkins, respectively. Even I read the book The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper.

Der Untergang is a remake, scene for scene, of the aforementioned films with a couple of slight differences: German is instead spoken and high production values. But the rest is a regurgitation of the same details.

So, I ask the filmmakers: what's the point of doing it all over again? Is it just to keep the memory of Adolf Hitler and his gang of idiots alive? Or is it to paint them as good, caring characters while the Russians are the bad guys? What a load of dog crap. So are the two interviews with the Nazi secretary who claimed to have no knowledge of the events during WWII. Another double bullshit.

All in all, Der Untergang is pointless.