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Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Rate:
6
Viewed:
2/09
2/09:
I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and other books about Nazism and WWII.
Hence, I'm familiar with the history of Adolf Hitler's downfall and how he committed suicide along with his wife.
Hitler: The Last Ten Days is an interesting picture, but it's also uneventful and anticlimactic. Hitler was
so paranoiac and heavily drugged out that he lost his mind toward the end.
Alec Guinness is solid, bearing sort of an uncanny resemblance to the man himself while going so far as to get the eye color
right. I like when stock footage is used to show what's going on outside the bunker. Yet it seems to take away the
drama from what's happening inside.
When Adolf Hitler replied in the negative to one question if there had been any hereditary defect in his family, that's not
true. Most people aren't aware of this little known fact: he had a borderline mentally retarded sister named Paula because of
the intermarriage within his family which might explain Hitler's state of mind. Then again, he was a pathological liar.
All in all, Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a job well-done although it's frankly boring at times.