Downfall (2005)

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R | 2 hr 34 mins | Historical, Biopic, Foreign, Adaptation | Released: 2/18/2005 |Box Office Total: $5.5M

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Synopsis:

In the dead of a November night in 1942, a group of young women are escorted by SS officers through the woods to Wolf's Lair, Hitler's headquarters in Eastern Prussia. They are candidates for the post of personal secretary to the Fuehrer. Among them is 22-year-old Traudl Junge, a fresh-faced girl from Munich. Traudl is chosen for the job and she is overcome with joy at the thought of serving beside her Fuehrer. BERLIN, APRIL 20, 1945: Hitler has retreated to a bunker system under the German Chancellery. Traudl Junge is asleep in her room, deep beneath the ground. She is awakened by tremors from artillery fire. The enemy is getting closer. Charting the last 10 days of Hitler's life, from his 56th birthday on April 20th, 1945 to his suicide on April 30th, the film uses multiple characters to show the chaos of a country coming apart at the seams, from Hitler's henchman under the streets of Berlin, to the soldiers and civilians fighting and dying as the Soviet Army ravaged the city above.

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Full Cast & Crew

Theatrical Release
2/18/2005

Director	Credit
Oliver Hirschbiegel	Director
Cast	Credit
Bruno Ganz	Adolf Hilter
Alexandra Maria Lara	Traudl Junge
Corinna Harfouch	Magda Goebbels
Ulrich Matthes	Joseph Goebbels
Juliane Koehler	Eva Braun
Heino Ferch	Albert Speer
Christian Berkel	Professor Ernst-Gunther Schenck
Matthias Habich	Professor Werner Haase
Thomas Kretschmann	Hermann Fegelein
Michael Mendl	General Wiedling
Andre Hennicke	General Monke
Ulrich Noethen	Heinrich Himmler
Birgit Minichmayr	Gerda Christian
Rolf Kanies	General Hans Krebs
Justus von Dohnanyi	General Wilhelm Burgdorf
Dieter Mann	Feldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Christian Redl	General Alfred Jodl
Götz Otto	Otto Gunsche
Thomas Thieme	Martin Bormann
Thomas Limpinsel	Heinz Linge
Gerald Alexander Held	Walter Hewel
Donevan Gunia	Peter Kranz
Bettina Redlich	Frl. Constanze Manziarly
Heinrich Schmieder	Rochus Misch
Anna Thalbach	Hanna Reitsch
Deitrich Hollinderbaumer	Ritter Robert von Greim
Ulrike Krumbiegel	Dorothee Kranz
Karl Kranzkowski	Wilhelm Kranz
Thorsten Krohn	Dr. Stumpfegger
Jurgen Tonkel	Erich Kempka
Devid Striesow	Feldwebel Tornow
Fabian Busch	Obersturmbannfuhrer Stehr
Christian Hoening	Reichsarzt SS Grawitz
Alexander Slastin	General Tschuikow
Alina Sokar	Goebbels' child #1
Amelie Menges	Goebbels' child #2
Charlotte Stoiber	Goebbels' child #3
Gregory Borlein	Goebbels' child #4
Julia Bauer	Goebbels' child #5
Laura Borlein	Goebbels' child #6
Production Credits	Credit
Christine Rothe	Executive Producer
Bernd Eichinger	Producer
Production Companies	Credit
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)	Production Company Production Company
Eos Productions	Production Company Production Company
Degeto Film GmbH	Production Company Production Company
Die Nefzers	Production Company Special Effects
ARD/Degeto Film	Production Company
Bernd Eichinger Fernsehproduktion OHG	Production Company
Constantin Film Produktion GmbH	Production Company
RaiCinema	Production Company
ORF	Production Company
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)	Production Company
Distribution Companies	Credit
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment	Domestic Video Distributor
Newmarket Films	Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Pro Film Ltd. (Bulgaria)	Foreign Distribution Rights
Constantin Film Produktion GmbH	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Hopscotch International	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Edko Films	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Sandrew Metronome International AB	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Momentum Pictures Limited	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Myndform	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Cineart	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
DeA Planeta	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Alfa Films	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Sandrew Metronome Norge AS (Norway)	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Sandrew Metronome Distribution Finland Oy	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Locations
St. Petersburg, Germany
Munich, Germany
Writer	Credit
Bernd Eichinger	Screenplay
Joachim C Fest	Source Material
Traudl Junge	Source Material
Melissa Muller	Source Material
Art Department	Credit
Elena Zhukova	Art Director
Bernd LePel	Production Designer
Casting	Credit
An Dorthe Braker	Casting
Film Camera	Credit
Rainer Klausmann	Director of Photography
Film Sales Financing	Credit
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern	Funding Funding
German Federal Film Board	Film Financier
Bayerischer BankenFonds	Funding Funding
EOS Entertainment	Foreign Distribution Sales
Music	Credit
Stephan Zacharias	Music
Production Management	Credit
Hanus Polak Jr	Assistant Director - First Assistant Director
Silvia Tollmann	Line Producer
Sound	Credit
Michael Kranz	Rerecording Mixer
Roland Winke	Sound Mixer
Stefan Busch	Sound Editor - Supervising Sound Editor
Visual Effects	Credit
The Nefzers	Special Effects
Wardrobe Hair Makeup	Credit
Claudia Bobsin	Costume Designer
Waldemar Pokromski	Makeup
Margrit Neufink	Makeup

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