Bravo to director Oliver Hirschbiegel for doing this the right (German) way - for intrepidly tackling a period piece few German producers might. The defeated spirit of the Nazis - covered extensively in the history books - has seldomly been more penetratingly shown on the Big Screen. Audience members get a glimpse into the final days of Hitler's rule from the bunker deep beneath the Reich Chancellery in Nazi Berlin's dying days. Sitting amongst a full-house of patrons here at the Toronto Int'l Film Festival's 2004 edition, Ganz captivated the local audience with the scariest Hitler I've ever seen up on the silver screen - better than Noah Taylor's English Hitler in MAX just a couple of years back. Not since perhaps Rod Steiger's portrayal of Benito Mussolini in Moustapha Akkad's LION OF THE DESERT (1980) have I seen a notorious dictator more realistically acted than Bruno Ganz's stunning display as "Der Fuerer" in The Downfall (2004).
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