Downfall

This film is a well-crafted description of the final period of the Nazi Reich. The realism was heightened by the dialogue being in German, and there were enough vignettes during the film showing with awful accuracy the brutality of the war. In some ways I found this film "got you" at a more frightening psychological level than Saving Private Ryan. In some ways there is no comparison between the two. Highly recommended.

I saw this excellent german movie, here in Brazil.Since the times of Leni Reifensthal,decades ago, no other german movie was so good, as this amazing movie.

Downfall
This is a gripping depiction of the end of Hitler and the Third Reich; somewhat harrowing in places, but a great film.

I recorded this one night off of HBO (or was it Showtime). I saw the description and thought it sounded interesting. The movie started at 1:00am and I had planned to go to bed and watch it later. I saw the first few minutes and ending up being awake past 3:00am as I could not stop watching. Now to be fair I love movies of this genre but if this was half as good I would still have loved it. My wife hates these type of movies however and it took a lot of convincing to get her to watch the next night. She hates war moves and really hates movies with subtitles. With that being said she loved this move. I ended up purchasing this movie as well.

I think it was the human depiction of the characters that made it so good. I defiantly did not feel sorry for Hitler after watching this however the lower rank soldiers and civilians were much easier to have sympathy for. I believe the tone of the movie highlighted how easily normal people can fall in line behind a mad man who in better times might have seemed more like a savior and then suffer terrible consequences for their blindness.

Didn't mean to get long winded here and will cut it short as there really is so much more I could say about this movie. This really does deserve 5 stars.

This is one of the few DVDs I own. I know it is not one that I will put on all the time for a feel good experience but I didn't buy it for that reason. I own it because it is the highest of art. It is like having your own Matisse or Picasso. This is about as good as modern film making gets. I am not a fan of WWII films and the genre has been flooded with so many poor ones why watch another one right? That is what I thought...see this one it is one of the best ever made on the subject or any other subject.