Downfall poster
Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
Screenplay Bernd Eichinger

Downfall

Original Title: Der Untergang

Tagline: April 1945, a nation awaits its... Downfall

Release Date: 2004-09-16

Duration: 155 minutes

Synopsis

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

Casting

  • Alexandra Maria Lara
    Traudl Junge
  • Bruno Ganz
    Adolf Hitler
  • Thomas Kretschmann
    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
  • Götz Otto
    SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Günsche
  • Dietrich Hollinderbäumer
    Ritter Robert von Greim
  • Elizaveta Boyarskaya
    Schwester Erna
  • Heino Ferch
    Albert Speer
  • Ulrich Matthes
    Joseph Goebbels
  • Christian Berkel
    Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
  • Birgit Minichmayr
    Gerda Christian