Führer's Wrath

Georgiana 2022-01-25 08:03:17

A classic World War II movie, a movie that is particularly prominent in a movie about Hitler, and even in a sense, it can be said that this is a movie starring Gantz alone.

The empire is about to fall, and everything will end. In the last ten days, the head of state and a group of followers hid in a bunker, and the Nazi machines continued to operate, even if the ending was quite clear. And what is most interesting at this time is undoubtedly the complex mentality of the people and the choices facing the future. This film is a documentary nature, through the oral memories and materials of the parties, the history is reproduced, and Hitler and his surroundings are reproduced. The mental state of Yigan people is vividly displayed, which makes people sigh, and is destined to plunge people into deep reflection.

Under Gantz's shaping, Hitler returned from the devil in people's concept to a flesh-and-blood human. He maintained his demeanor and respect for his lady, had affection and respect for his subordinates, and was almost paranoid in his beliefs. The horrifying viewpoints and so on, these have restored a true and complete head of state, Gantz's performance can be called epic and cannot be surpassed.

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  • Ibrahim 2021-10-20 19:01:43

    Perhaps the only person who is beautified in the whole film is Traudl Junge. The film ignores her family's Nazi background, and finds the best beauty in German film Alexandra Maria Lara to play her when she was young. Full text: http://hou26.org/zeta/women1943.htm#Junge

  • Skyla 2022-03-21 09:01:18

    [A] Actually it was quite dramatic. I originally planned to watch this one today, but finally watched "Attack from the Sea". As a result, just an hour after reading it, I was shocked by the sad news of the death of "Head of State" Bruloganz. Like "Attack from the Sea", it's all facing history from the German perspective. If "Attack from the Sea" is true, then "Destruction of the Empire" is a documentary. It is more like a documentary, looking at that period of history completely impartially and even indifferently, without mercy. And in Hitler's last days, he was not the head of state who occupied the entire Europe, but more like a stubborn old man. However, from the last Hitler, I saw Xiang Yu's sorrow for "unwilling to cross Jiangdong". The last days are too cruel, even crueler than war. Because on the battlefield, you never know who will get a headshot in the next second; and in the last days, you never know who will blow his head with a gun in the next second. There is no righteous side in war, only victory or defeat. The whole film is depressing and desolate, and there is a sound of gunshots under the empty camera, and beyond shock, there is only sorrow. RIP

Downfall quotes

  • Adolf Hitler: You see, gentlemen? I'll be proved right. Wenck will come.

    [leaves generals]

    Adolf Hitler: Wenck will come.

    [passes by guards who salute to him]

    General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: I want to immediately know if it's possible for Wenck to attack or not.

    General der Infanterie Hans Krebs: It's unlikely that Wenck's small force can attack the Red Army...

    Joseph Goebbels: [interrupts Krebs] How dare you say it's unlikely?

    General der Infanterie Hans Krebs: Wenck has nothing to confront the Red Army!

    General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: Why don't you tell the Führer? Have you all gone crazy?

    General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: The Führer knows it himself, but he will never surrender, and we won't either! I went through that before, and once is enough!

    General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: Come on, I have to get out of here.

    [leaves with Mohnke]

  • Adolf Hitler: General von Greim, I appoint you to Commander in Chief of the Air Force and General Field Marshal. A large responsibility rests on your shoulders. You must shake up the entire air force. Many mistakes have been made, so be ruthless. Life never forgives weakness. This so called humanity... is just priests' drivel. Compassion is a primal sin. Compassion for the weak is a betrayal of nature.

    Joseph Goebbels: The strongest can only be victorious by eradicating the weak.

    Adolf Hitler: I have always obeyed this law of nature by never permitting myself to feel compassion. I have ruthlessly suppressed domestic opposition and brutally crushed the resistance of alien races. It's the only way to deal with it.

    [Linge enters with a folder in hand]

    Adolf Hitler: Apes, for example, trample every outsider to death. What goes for apes goes even more for human beings.

    [Hitler reads the folder]

    Adolf Hitler: Himmler, in Lübeck, has made an offer to surrender to the western powers through Count Bernadotte... according to a report by English radio.

    [finishes reading]

    Adolf Hitler: Himmler... Of all people, Himmler! The truest of the true... This is the worst betrayal of all! Göring, yeah; he was always corrupt, of course. Speer, yeah: an idealistic, unpredictable artist. All the others, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

    [puts folder down]

    Adolf Hitler: But not Himmler. Has he gone crazy?

    [stands up]

    Adolf Hitler: He claimed authority by saying I was sick, perhaps already dead!

    [pause]

    Adolf Hitler: Please leave me alone with Lord von Greim and Frau Reitsch.

    [Everyone except the following stands up]

    Adolf Hitler: Oh, and bring me Fegelein.

    Heinz Linge, Kammerdiener: My Führer, we don't know where he is.

    Adolf Hitler: But he's Himmler's adjutant. He must be here.

    General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: We haven't seen him for days.

    Adolf Hitler: I want his report at once!

    [Everyone leaves, and Goebbels is about to step out]

    Adolf Hitler: Please stay, Doctor.