Anthony Hopkins in "The Bunker" (1981)
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- In 1945, American correspondent James O'Donnell (James Naughton) is gaining entry to the Führerbunker by bribing a Soviet sentry with a packet of cigarettes.
The film then tells the story of the occupants of the bunker between January and May 1945 as an extended flashback. A number of historical events and the reactions of the bunker's residents are presented, including the encirclement of Berlin, Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins) last meeting with Albert Speer (Richard Jordan) and the attempts by Speer to sabotage Hitler's scorched earth policy, Speer's abortive plan to kill Hitler in the bunker, Hitler's dismissal of Heinz Guderian, Hitler's firing of Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Goering, the failure of German forces to lift the siege, the murder of the Joseph Goebbel's (Cliff Gorman) children, Hitler's wedding to Eva Braun (Susan Blakely), and the suicides of Hitler, Braun and Joseph and Magda Goebbels (Piper Laurie).
The film ends as groups of survivors are leaving the bunker complex of the Reich Chancellery. The final scene depicts the bunker's mechanic and final occupant, Hentschel, listening to a radio announcement that Hitler has died fighting. He throws a set of papers at the radio in disgust and the scene dissolves to a series of still images with voiceover explaining the fate of the remaining survivors. The last still image is of Hitler giving a speech during his rise to power, with O'Donnel's VoiceOver: "It was Thomas Hardy who said 'While much is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened." The still then comes to life briefly, depicting Hitler giving a political speech. The scene dissolves into the final still image of the ruined bunker as the credits roll.
A 1981 American made-for-television historical war film directed by George Schaefer, produced by Time-Life Productions, written by John Gay, based on James P. O'Donnell's book "The Bunker" (1975), cinematography by Jean-Louis Picavet, starring Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, James Naughton, Michel Lonsdale, Piper Laurie, and Susan Blakely. An American-French co-production.
In a short scene at the beginning of the film, a younger O'Donnell is played by actor James Naughton. O'Donnell himself provided brief voice-over narrations at the beginning and end of the film. Actors Michael Sheard (Himmler) and Tony Steedman (Jodl) reprised their characters from the British television film "The Death of Adolf Hitler" (1973).
After viewing the dailies, one of the producers complained that Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Adolf Hitler was too sympathetic. Hopkins replied that his portrayal was based on the premise that ultimately even Hitler was also human, and that's what's so horrific about him. In addition to the historical research, Anthony Hopkins styled Adolf Hitler after his paternal grandmother. His grandfather was a tyrant, of whom Hopkins was scared as a child. Reporters on the set said the sense of realism was so intense that at one point, when Anthony Hopkins entered the room to prepare for the next scene, actors portraying SS German soldiers snapped to attention whenever Hopkins came onto the set, even if he wasn't in character.
Anthony Hopkins won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler at the 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1981) Piper Laurie was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special, and René Magnol, Robert L. Harman, William McCaughey, and Howard S. Wollman were nominated for Outstanding Film Sound Mixing.
The actors' interpretations of the events differ in ways from the traditional accounts. During the final meeting between Hitler and Albert Speer, Hopkins adopts a sarcastic tone and gestures (including mock applause) that suggest Hitler was already aware of Speer's betrayal, even though he uses the exact words recounted by the witnesses. This became a controversial scene due to a perception in some circles that the resemblance to Jesus Christ's legendary foreseeing of Judas's betrayal was intentional. These accusations were consistently denied, as were reports regarding a rumored on-set romance between Piper Laurie (Magda Goebbels) and Cliff Gorman (Joseph Goebbels).
The film shifts the point-of-view character regularly, and characters who are not known to have left their experiences on record often tell the story. Dr. Werner Haase is used in this manner, even though he was never interviewed (having died in late 1950). Likewise, two scenes are written from the viewpoint of Hitler's cook, Constanze Manziarly, and in one scene, Manziarly actually has a flashback, remembering happier days. However, Manziarly disappeared while escaping from the bunker, so neither O'Donnell nor any other person was able to interview her or get her viewpoint.
The ending is also influenced by O'Donnell's book and its focus on the bunker itself, ending just as the main surviving characters are leaving the bunker. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Man, no one will ever come close to Bruno Ganz.
That fella was a real monster.
Richard Jordan looks uncannily like Albert Speer
NEIN NEIN NEIN
Yes, absolutely. His performance or rather transformation leaves one at a loss for words.
"Speer yah"
“Get me Fegelein!
Fegelein! Fegelein! Fegelein!!!” 🤬🤬🤬
AnthonyHopkins is one of Hollywood’s all-time great actors, but he doesn’t make a convincing Hitler, but Bruno Ganz does!
Agreed!
Disagree. I forgot it was Hopkins after a while. I see the point that his Hitler was histronic, but from all accounts he was exactly that at the end.
Hopkins said he based his portrayal of Hitler on his grandfather, who apparently was one mean son of a bitch!
Agreed. Hopkins was more of a caricature of Hitler. Gans was convincing.
Hopkins did well, Ganz was Hitler. That whole cast in the German one though, they all looked and acted like the originals - Goebbels, Keitel, Speer etc, it was amazing.
Speer was a genius. The fact that he was able to convince the judges at Nuremberg of a degree of innocence - sufficient to avoid the death penalty - was absolutely amazing.
why? He didn't kill anyone nor was in a position to give such orders. He was Hitler's Architect. He was probably the only one in his inner circle who didn't commit any war crimes.
They needed a Nazi that regretted his actions. Simon Wiesenthal claimed Speer should have been hung. The proof of slave-labour ordered by Speer is documented,
Pretty easy when most of this bullshit is lies.
who knows what did he trade with allies for having his life saved?
History's written by the victors. We've no idea what really went on, before, during or after, and who had what dealings or knew what and when.
I watched for an hour and a half then realised that I knew how it ended… Hopkins was brilliant..
Thank you for not spoiling it.
Would have been a plot twist if it didn't end like that wouldn't it.
@@Leon-bc8hm
Plot twist:
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Steiner's counterattack against the Soviets was successful and operation Barbarossa 2.0 is in full steam ahead
no one knows as a matter of fact
I had to stop watching before the suicide with the kids..I just can't watch that again.
I actually think he’s done an excellent characterisation. Especially hitler’s raging and hand gestures. He’s studied him incredibly well. Bruno is excellent of course, but don’t forget the advantage for bruno in the appearance of his performance is that he’s speaking in german which sells it way better than speaking in english. Also tiny sound production quality for this being a lot older. I think they’re both great performances in their own right
Great film, Hokin's foaming at the mouth, Gorman's limply walk as Goebbels, Jordan's portrayal of Speer and the rest of the cast. What a great watch.
gorman is/was a perfectly good actor,but i feel hes miscasted as goebbels, coz goebbels was an unattractive runt.
Watch _Downfall_
Bruno Ganz
They could've called this one "the Speer Putsch" other good ones, though not for their Hitler portrayals are "The Rohm Putsch" and "Die Wackensee Konference"
@@TheSaltydog07It's the best movie! You cannot compare this version with "Downfall!"
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After a while I was thinking "... the music sounds like The Terminator" and sure enough, Brad Fiedel is the composer for this movie, three years before "I'll be baack".
@goranekstrom708
Yes many film composer's have similar tone to some of their work.
I work in music production, and I swear, every composer, songwriter, engineer, whatever has their own favourite instruments and tones. And with some prolific artists, you can just tell who the composer is by the arrangement. It's really quite wonderful.
For me personally, it's the Rhodes piano. I never feel like anything sounds right until it has at least a little bit of Rhodes piano in the mix.
I thought the same.
I don't know if I would've caught that but I read your comment less than a minute in and I couldn't not hear it all the way through!
Brad Fiedel, John Carpenter,Alan Howarth owned hollywood synth in the 80's.
Amazing to think that the *beginning* (for the US) of WWII was only 40 years before the release date of this movie. It's sort of like making a movie about something that happened in the mid-1980s, now.
I was born in 1971. When I was a child WWII felt like it happened "yesterday".
@@francisdec1615 ha-ha you are old. Wait. I was born in '71 too. :( I'm also old.
Imagine "Funeral in Berlin" (1966) have a lot of scenes filmed in a Berlin still keeping the war aftermath. I watch some movies only for those scenes. (not this one, though, "Funeral in Berlin" is a great movie. :) )
I'm 51 and was born in 72 WW2 only ended 27 years before I was born..
@@cristic767I never heard of funeral in Berlin.I might have to check it out..
"Would you like to join them? How would like some afternoon tea and crumpets?" That line delivery killed me.
Although they didn't actually look like crumpets.....or not like Brit one's, anyway.
Still a great old movie!
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This was a good movie, very well acted. What I take issue with is that this was when folks still bought into Albert Speer as a sympathetic person, now we know better.
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Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor Emmy for this performance. Mr. Hopkins, who else could have played Hitler, Nixon and Hannibal Lector.
Hey you forgot about Hitchcock 🇬🇧.
@@brianhenderson-tx9mc I know he played Hitchcock, but I was actually implying his adeptness at 'villainous' roles 😉
He also played Mussolini in a TV movie.
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Three historical mistakes I found in this movie:
1. The Americans bombed during the day and the British at night contrary to what Speer said to the officer.
2. Fegelein was not hanged but shot.
3. It was Hitler's left hand that trembled not his right hand.
😢😢😢😢😢
Horrible movie and the germans speak in English, haha😂😂😂😂
says near the beginning, this is not a historical account.
Germany
Uh...? That kinda "Hitler scrutiny" is a lil worrisome, doncha think?
Anthony Hopkins made the most convincing Hitler for the time the movie was made in 1981.
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This is the first time I learned about this movie, never knew they made it! 😮
Anthony Hopkins and Bruno Gantz (RIP) did stellar jobs at the role!
Hopkins too young Ganz too old
@@antondiffering4727 Hitler was old, my guy.
@@antondiffering4727 Technically true, but Ganz was not that much older (63 vs 56). If you look at original footage of Hitler from 1945, he looks much older, so Ganz is pretty convincing.
Fritz Dietz, from the Soviet-Polish-Yugoslav-Italian and East German movie series Liberation.
@@alexandroczayanek8561 Stress will do that to you.
Such a powerful work, thanks for posting!
Saw this movie when it was originally broadcast, haven't seen it since. Most grateful. 🎉🎉
I was 14 and a huge history buff when this movie first aired on CBS. I thought it was amazing.
it probably was, when it was released. time caught up with it in not a good way, that is why historical movies have to be viewed and reviewed within the timeframe they were made in.
The incident with Guderian was much more dynamic. Guderian turned purple with rage when Hitler tried blaming the troops and with a heart condition it was feared he'd have a massive heart attack. The ones that dished it back to Hitler like Manstein, Guderian, and Rundstedt for example Hitler would actually give a grudging respect to and relieve-but under the pretenses of 'health reasons' when they drew the line and made too much sense.
Notice that Hitler backed down when confronted with an equally bombastic bully of superior knowledge.
So says Guderian. He was just as much as a boot licker as the rest of them and he stuck around of the sweet sweet dotationen. What sense were any of these fools making in April 1945? or 43 for that matter.
Only after being humbled by the war. Look at the film "The Rohm Putsch" to see the extent of the Reichschancellor's stranglehold during the early days?
In fact when he asks Mr Guderian, I believe, to take a retreat to think it over? I'm pretty sure that's him attempting to float a hit job
Yep, I see you've read "Inside the 3rd Reich" and "Panzer leader" too lol
Saw this is a teenager in the 80's.i try to watch it every 5 years
Try a Russian film called Come and See . About a Russian boy who goes off the fight the Nazis as a partisan . It's part war film , part art , part horror . Unsettling to say the least . For the most part , historically accurate
@@scottflowe2875 its russian propaganda
@@yagovmolotov5127 А этот фильм не пропаганда?!
@@MsGornist It's more like a retelling of events. It doesn't attempt to you force your opinion or outlook.
@@yagovmolotov5127amen, come and see what the great patriotic war under Stalin's regime did to an estimated 30 million Russian/Slavs/Jews/Gypsies and other religions.
And how many migrated to Germany in the 20's/30's, and then wonder why the Nazi party came around in the first place! But yeah, come and see a reaction to an action caused, blame the reactor when the one who caused the first acts of violence gets to side in the allies, but what do I know, I didn't get to come and see oops
Dude the actors they cast for goering and Speer are UNCANNY
What about the maintenance man?
I was convinced Speer was Falco to begin with... Pat Butcher in the kitchen... 😀
Actor that played Bormann should’ve played Hess; yes, off screen in Britain. I’ll go watch downfall now.
Traudl Junge as well.
Göring, yes. Speer? I'd say the best (visually) was Manfred-Anton Algrang from Valkyrie (2008).
Man, I love how the actor playing Martin Bormann shows his increasing desperation to have Hitler's mind changed so they can try and escape the bunker. He did a phenomenal job there!
I think the actor playing Bormann was the head monk in Name of the Rose.
@@keithad6485 French Actor Michael Lonsdale, he played a Bond villain too.
@@rtqii He was the investigator in Day Of The Jackal. Unforgettable.
@@rtqiiyep he played Drax in moonraker
@@gc7820 He's a good villain, but people say he was actually quite nice IRL. He died I just discovered, 21 September 2020
Bormann was like a fat spider sitting in the middle of a net, conspiring and intriguing. He was a brutal upstart.
Aber Hitler hat es zugelassen!
Intensely good, Hopkins was fantastic
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The pressure and depression in that bunker must have been tangible.
Speer in a 1974 interview that the scene in the Bunker was "unimaginable, incredibly fantastic."
@McIntyreBible Drugged up to the eyeballs no doubt !
Plus, there's the sheer compression of all those impressionable people he impressively presided over. It looked pretty crowded?
No, really? You think so?
A terrific Performance by Hopkins.
As always.
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Albert Speer died the year this film was released (1981).
This film was made on January 27, 1981, Albert Speer died in september 01, 1981
@@tigerheart1981 That was the original air date. In all likelihood, the film was was made some time before it aired.
Poor Albert 😢
And he died in London
Speer never planned assassination of Hitler . It was bogus story he invented to avoid death sentence
Brilliant film ! I never seen it before and I am 57.Hopkins was really great in this ! all great actors & actresses ! a must see for those who have not.
found this randomly, watched it for the first time, my gawd was it fantastic acting!
What a life !
I like to see different interpretations of this event.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Same here! First time watch at 61. Shockingly good ensemble.
Thank you for posting. ❤👍
Coucou de France🇨🇵
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This was shockingly good. I didn’t even know it existed.
Here is Albert Speer, being portrayed as a saint.
Just because he refused to blow up what the RAF and American 8th Airforce couldn't, that doesn't make him one.
Among other roles he was Minister of Armaments. The Minister of an industry which used masses of slave labour where tens of thousands dying of overwork, starvation and general maltreatment.
But Speer played his Nuremberg cards better than Doyle Brunson ever could. Speer not only avoided having a rope for a tie, but he even became "the good nazi" (if there was ever one), being here, as well as in current movies, portrayed as the only person to see reason in a sea of blindmen.
History does have a sense of irony.
Your statement needs putting into context. All "sides" made use of slave labour, and victors of war can portray anyone on the losing side anyway they like.
@@CameTo You are not comparing German slave labour with British or American slave labour, are you?
You can comparate it with Soviet or Japanese labour, but regardless of which metric you decide to use (calorie intake, life expectancy, working hours), you would be a lot better in a Japanese internment camp in the U.S. than inside of a converted German mine.
Yet a man like Mao Tse-Tung is seen as a poet, philosopher, soldier, and revolutionary. And also the mass murderer of at least 40 million of his own people.
@CameTo neither of those statements are context lmao 🤡
Some interesting food for thought nevertheless.
1:46:07, this scene is historically accurate, because when Eva Braun signed the document she first was going to sign it Eva Braun, but crossed out Braun and wrote “Hitler”
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I forgot.I was.watching a movie. Indeed the acting was good!
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Blondie did not deserve to be killed. She was a good girl.
No she wasn't but i would have partied her. Get a room.
The fear was that she would have been tortured by the Soviets.
But the six children killed by their mother did deserve to be killed?😮
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
@CPDheadstomp
As was Gov Kristi Noem's dog whom she killed in cold blood. In her second autobiography, No Going Back, Noem recounted an incident in which she shot and killed her young dog because she considered it "untrainable" after it killed another family's chickens.[4][5] Responding to widespread criticism, she argued that she was a "responsible owner" who made a tough decision.[5][6]
Never seen this before - such a cast!
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Anthony Hopkins and music... Amazing. ❤
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Anthony hopkins really does do an amazing job at playing this role. I'm almost convinced i'm looking at hitler. I have seen actual footage of hitler doing public speaking , and he must have researched a lot of footage from the world war in order to play this role.
Probably why he is Sir Anthony Hopkins. Yes, he won an award for this. Thanks for the visit!
Ah! Since 2004's "Der Untergang", it might come as a shock to people now that there had already been several depictions of Hitler, and normally by fairly well-known British actors.
See also: "Hitler: The Last 10 Days" starring Alec Guinness as Hitler, released in 1973. And also a television play from 1973 called "The Death of Adolf Hitler" for the ITV Sunday Night Theatre program, starring Frank Finlay as Hitler.
I guarantee that comparing and contrasting all these different productions depicting the same set of events is an interesting exercise. If anyone is interested in the primary source material for all of these films, including this one, find a copy of Gerhardt Boldt's book "Hitler's Last Days: An Eye-witness account" as well as a copy of Albert Speer's autobiography.
Great recommendations
Albert Speer‘s memories should be handed with utmost caution. He was a great liar. Especially his alleged "plot" to kill Hitler using gas inside the bunker, is nothing else as a fairytale. But this story ( which he presented during the Nuremberg Trials) fulfilled its purpose, it saved his life!
And they're all very two dimensional portrayals. They don't really jibe with the Hitler one reads about from various aides, etc. who spent a lot of time around him.
The fact of the matter is, no one can (or is allowed to?) portray Hitler as anything but a blood thirsty raving prick. Therefore, it's all false and basically propaganda. Politics, virtue signalling, and ideology will probably obscure any honest portrayals of Hitler forever. People expect to see a 24/7 monster, well, that's what they get.
I actually didn´t know about this movie. . . I haven´t watched it yet but just skipped through it and watched the scene pretty much at the beginning where Hitler has a meeting with his generals -- I found it interesting how similar a scene this was to the one filmed for "Der Untergang".
@@valentinius62 exactly, relying on accounts by self serving pricks like Speer who spent every moment out of Spandau giving interviews that he was the good one, the innocent golden child. Or the generals, who had noting new to offer after Moscow, got thoroughly trounced by the Russians, but had to convince the US they were experts, so much so they got to write the history of the eastern front.
“You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.”
-Norm Macdonald
He was kind of a jerk
Don’t follow leaders and watch the parking meters[bob dylon]
I've found he's kind of an acquired taste.
The only aura surrounding Hit leer is bad smell
@@TNT-km2eg Who said anything about an aura?
Very nice, thank you for posting 💐
I enjoyed watching this film very much. Many thanks for sharing it with us. No adverts either 😊. Great stuff!
They really nailed the German accent.
😂😂😂
LOL🤣
Yar
As a German I'm thinking Hollywood is funny!🤣🤣
😂😂😂
I'm glad I saw this! I've now seen this and Downfall and obviously, Downfall blows this out of the water! But, I am also grading this on a curve. First of all, Downfall focuses on what is happening in the bunker as well as what is outside and nearby the bunker whereas, this is just the bunker. Second, I see in the description that this was made for TV. If I am comparing a made for TV movie vs. a movie meant for the big screen, then you have to give the TV movie some handicap points. They don't tend to have the budgets or the shooting schedules that the big screen does. So, with that in mind, I think that this is a pretty solid film. There are some details in the film that are interesting that differ from Downfall like, I would love to know if it's true that Speer and one of the maintenance guys were thinking about piping mustard gas into the ventilation system! Anthony Hopkins Hitler: A competent performance by a well respected British actor giving a British interpretation. Bruno Ganz Hitler: Mein fuhrer is yelling at me and scaring me!
Unemployed critic ?
No. Unemployed commenter?@@TNT-km2eg
Winners write history
Kind of makes you wonder how accurate it is. Especially when winners always come out noble and on the side of all that is right and good in the world.
Тачно. Ово су нацисти написали.
Who'd have thought it, she escaped the bunker being Hitler's cook and then went to London to run the Queen Vic.
Imagine reading that resume...
@@Gorboduc No smoking in the pub and no meat.
It gives the Beer Hall Putsch a whole new meaning.
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Pat Butcher and Hitler. The actress played herself.
Love this movie. Obviously, Downfall rocked, but the fact that they included Guderian in this, and his famous argument with Hitler in the bunker...kudos. Read that in John Toland's the Last 100 days.... "How dare you speak to me that way. My whole life has been a fight for Germany"
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Bruno Ganz portrayal of Hitler was memorizing, having the accent certainly helped. Anthony Hopkins acting was outstanding. Downfall movie was my favorite, story very authentic. Many thanks CZcams for showing so many great shows !! Greetings from Melbourne. 🤠💯👍
I just couldn’t, can’t stop watching this!
Everyone of these men had superb comb-overs.
Brilliant movie, brilliant cast. I knew Hitler and Eva Braun ended their lives in the bunker but wasn’t aware of all the goings on there. Best movie I’ve come across on CZcams so far. Thanks so much DPB.
If you liked this movie, see "Downfall". It is a better telling of these events, in German with subtitles.
@@marcomalo02 Thanks. I just finished watching it. I enjoyed both movies.
@@jillwanlin9558 Being interested in WWII history, the Downfall movie is essentially very much historical. I've seen it several times and gained much appreciation for the intent of the film maker to steer an accurate course. The Bunker paints Albert Speer as a good nazi. There is no such thing.
You think he died in the bunker? lol.No.he died of old age hidden away.if everyone else escaped and made it to South America..why couldn’t der fuhrer?
@@marcomalo02 yes I did see a comment pointing out this fact about Albert Speer. I’m glad I watched The Bunker first as English is my only language and it helped me focus on keeping the characters straight and their part in events, while not having to read subtitles. Downfall was brilliant in capturing the miriad of human emotions through the chaos of those last days both in and out of the bunker.
Fact : Anthony Hopkins reads his lines 200 times before they start filming and has them memorized and engrosses himself in the character
ok yes but still can't shake the British accent.
@@sandyschipper1400LOL 😂
Once caught him reading them only 199 times. Just once, mind
@@sandyschipper1400it's a Welsh accent...
Better than speers disappearing and reappearing accent.
Anthony Hopkins great acting thanks for posting enjoyed the history 👍
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what a good old movie ive never seen it before thanks for the vid thanks for the hard work mate 👍
I gotta get me one of those leather overcoats man so cool 😎
Anthony Hopkins does an excellent job!
Designed by Hugo Boss. That look deserves to come back
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I like Hopkins acting in this film he put in his heart
Anthony Hopkins is one of the top ten actors of all time.
Alongside with Adam Sandler
"The Edge",a forgotten gem.
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Love how the GI gave the Soviet Guard a few cigs to go in then the scam artist pulls out his own pack lmaoooo
That was a baller move 😂
Удивительно что вообще что то показал про русских!
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I think there was a LOT more of Hopkin’s Hitler’s personality in real life than Downfall wanted to show. People talked about Hitler literally foaming at the mouth with spittle when he went into his rages. Hopkins does a great job of ranting in a way that would produce that. Downfall may be the preeminent movie based off the facts of what happened, but I love Hopkin’s interpretation and think there is a Hell of a lot of truth in it.
Agreed, this seems extremely realistic/
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Speers character was really good too
In _Inside the third Reich_ (which this film seems to take a lot of information from) Speer noted "if Hitler was capable of friendship, he was the closest thing he had to a friend".
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Thanks for sharing this Donald, Anthony Hopkins is one of my Godfather in acting and I was searching for some early days of his work, love from India...
If you haven’t already seen it, check out ‘When eight bells toll’, a movie based on an Ian Fleming novel, Hopkins in the starring role.
Thanks@@timmurray6890 Going to watch it right away
Surprisingly accurate film for 81. You don’t ever see that from American production companies.
You haven’t watched any American movies other than Pearl Harbor and Fury?
@@rafaelescobar7931“aye aye how’m I posta know dat” ~Whereda Toofpaste
It got Speer completely wrong.
@@tatata1543 My biggest complaint would be calling the Nero Decree an order of destruction. But in what way did they mischaracterize Speer?
@@WhereDaToofpaste He was a Nazi, just like the rest of them. He was involved in the use of Jews as slave Labour and knew they were being worked to death and that story about him planning to kill Hitler is total bullshit. The idea that he never knew the extent of the regime’s crimes is absurd, he was actively involved in carrying out many of them. Everything he did in the later stages of the war was preparation for what he knew would come after it, he knew there would be a reckoning and his only hope of survival would be to create a “good Nazi” myth for himself. In fairness to him, he pulled it off. He should have been hanged like the rest of them but he fooled the world and right up until his death in London (where he was being interviewed for a landmark tv series) he was seen as just a simple architect who was gulled by the evil Nazis when in fact he was in it up to his neck.
"Never surrender." Now who else says that now?
Watching Downfall next will be quite complimentary and probably inspire new questions and fact digging.
And then all the Hitler rants parodies.
Downfall was even better. Bruno Ganz WAS Hitler.
really he was Hitler all this time? that's quite some news @@donkykong1823
@@SirAntoniousBlockwith fegelein and his antics
Wasting time of your life on that ?!?
Hopkins makes it more "Hannibal at the Alps".
How noble Speer is in this film, you can almost forget how many people he killed, when they, as forced laborers, had to bone themselves to death, when the Armor Minister, wanted to help Hitler win the war.
Yep. Slick fuck….. Chicago
I don't know how accurate the interaction between Hitler and Speer truly is but it if was anything like in the movie, it seems that Speer was probably the only person in the Nazi high command that Hitler actually liked at a personal level. For once, he wasn't trying to browbeat someone into obedience; he actually tried to convince him. A hint of humanity within the monster.
We have exactly one witness, Speer, who spent the latter part of his days trying to whitewash himself of everything. Essentially blame the moustache guy. Whatever he was, he did have a grasp over people. It wasn't fear or lunacy that drove them, though there was no shortage of either in the last days. The horror isn't some megalomaniac, it's every last person filmed here was a willing, rational participant.
Humanity in a Nazi ?!? Keeping "Mein Kampf " under the pillow ?
Humanity in a Nazi ?!? Sure , especially those keeping "Mein Kampf " under the pillow
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Never heard of this! Thought it was a clickbait fake AI thumbnail. Watching it now 🍿
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It's ironic that some of the Nazi officers are played by Jewish actors, including Cliff Gorman, who plays Joseph Goebbels.
Gorman was born Joel Joshua Goldberg in Queens, New York, the son of Jewish parents, Ethel (née Kaplan) and Samuel Goldberg, who later changed their surname to Gorman.
This is not unlike "Hogan's Heroes", where Colonel Klink was played by Werner Klemperer.
Klemperer was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1920. His father was renowned orchestra conductor Otto Klemperer and his mother was soprano Johanna Geisler. He had a younger sister named Lotte (1923-2003).
His father was Jewish by birth, and converted to Catholicism, but later returned to Judaism. His mother was Lutheran.
His grandfather was part of the Jewish community in Prague, and his grandmother was a Sephardic Jew from Hamburg, Germany. Otto Klemperer was a first cousin of Victor Klemperer, a German scholar and diarist whose journals, published in Germany in 1995, detail his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the German Democratic Republic.
Werner Klemperer's family immigrated to the United States in 1933, when he was around 13 years old, settling in Los Angeles, where Otto Klemperer became conductor of the LA Philharmonic (1933-1939).
Werner enrolled in acting courses at the Pasadena Playhouse before joining the US Army to serve in World War II. Following the war, he performed on Broadway and later television.
Klemperer's first major film role was as a psychiatrist in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" (1956).
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Anthony Hopkins is going to go down and be bigger than Hitler for many many years and is such a great actor and this is a sad story yet I’m glad it didn’t go the other way
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Really shows how good Hopkins is. Alec Guiness did a great Hitler too. Cliff Gorman is awesome as Goebbles.
Himmler is also simmler ...
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@dac545j Ha!
Masterpiece. ❤
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The bunker is a forgotten jewel.
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"But ..We'd all be thrown back to the middle ages!"
"Yeah."
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😅 .. always wanted to see this! Thank you so much for sharing it! I've heard about this production for years and years now and I can finally tick the box.. I think it was pretty good, actually.. Speer is well cast and he's more accurately portrayed, but shown very sympathetically.
Hopkins was good enough I guess, although I think his portrayal sometimes borders on parody whenever he gets to screaming and shouting. "If the war is lost, DE-PEEPLA-GERMANY-B-LOST- AWLSEWW!"
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I don't how he does it but Hopkins almost makes Hitler sympathetic at times in this movie. What a great actor..
More films like this please 😊
И покажите как русские до этого бункера от Москвы шли!
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This was surprisingly good for when it was made...only weak performance I thought was the guy playing Goerbels, who seemed badly cast. Otherwise very watchable indeed. 👍🏻
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I've got the book, The Bunker by James O'Donnell. It cannot be sold in Australia as the cover means it has been deemed ridiculously as terrorist material. Thanks for the upload and the chance to download.
Imagine my surprise when I found "Mein Kampf" in my local library (Ireland).
Just why would you need it ?!?
@@TNT-km2eg understanding your enemy and their motivations is important. If your own ideology can be swayed by a single book, you probably aren't suited to using the internet whatsoever
Keep your banalities , cheap philosophy , ridiculous deductions and superfluous advices for yourself Einstein
@TNT-km2eg I have no idea, I was just surprised to find that piece of garbage in an Irish library, in English, too.
Kannte diese Variante nicht und muss sagen...Hopkins war Brillant. Grossartiger Darsteller!
Very good movie for its time, well-acted from top to bottom.
The actor playing Himmler also played Hitler in Indianna Jones and the Last Crusade.
If they fatten him up a bit and have him play goering in something he'll have achieved the nazi hat trick
That's wacko
i love that autograph scene
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Have never seen this. Excellent!
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Gosh, what a cast!
People who went on to be big (British) TV stars or parts in great movies.
Saw this on tv in the late eighties and was bored by it. It was the sort of film shown to fill in a gap in their schedule.
Hopkins was a 2 bit actor back then, B list, not A list, a failed James Bond.
People forget.
But what a great film.
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I watched this when it first came out; I was enthralled as I had been a WW2 historian since I was a pre teen because my father was wounded at Chergourg and he told me more than a few stories over the years. This was the first time I believe that anyone really went into detail on the last months of Hitler. I remember being fascinated; more like watching a deadly rabid animal writhing in its death throes.
Morell got the ball rollin’
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The scenes with Hitler and Speer are fantastic, the failing Hitler going from doddering friend to scary insanity at the flick of a switch and Speer scared out of his mind never knowing if he will get out alive.
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What a cast..... from the Elephant Man to Downton Abbey
And Eastenders.
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Magda's actress performance is amazing, especially the cigarette scene.
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The actor playing Goebels is Not slimy enough. Call Martin Kosleck.
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In fact, he looks too good ! But a good actor all the same.
Outstanding acting in this movie!
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Hopkins being boss even before his most iconic role 🥩
This IS Acting !!
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Oh my. I'm sure Anthony's blood pressure spiked when he acted those rages! Not healthy.
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Anthony Hopkins what an actor!
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I've watched this at least three times. Little else on YT. Hopkins and the other cast still make it compelling. I appreciate that this is a re-imagining of Hitler's last days. I respect that.
The only false note in casting was Julian Fellowes as some general and Speer's confidant. Way way too poofy. His type wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in the Third Reich.
Tou should watch mark felton productions. You would like it.
You'd be surprised
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I only caught some of the movie, but the Anthony Hopkins character seemed like a nice man
1:39:25, the scene where Borman reads the message from Hitler.
The problem with this scene is that in historical reality there was Hans Linger also in the room, because he was interviewed in 1973 and said what Hitler said when Borman read the message, and it was not which was characterized here.
@@MicroAggressor I have several times. In fact I purchased the film from CZcams. You're right, the scene in Downfall is more historically accurate!
@@McIntyreBible Fair point. But I've watched too many parody videos from Downfall to not start giggling. Hitler in Thailand chasing ladyboys lol.
@@andrewfrancis7272 I know; it isn't appealing!
I guess you have read Heinz Linge's book, I was Hitler's Valet. I suspect you are spot on.
@@keithad6485 no, I didn’t read his book (in fact I wasn’t aware he wrote one!), but I did listen to his BBC interview of 1973 when he described what occurred in the Bunker.
Well done. Tku for post.
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Michael Lonsdale (playing Bormann ) would have made a good Leonid Brezhnev in a film or TV production. He had a strong resemblance to him.
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You are wonderful - thank you
Puts the lotion in the basket ...PUT THE FOOOKIN LOTION IN THE BASKET 😂😂😂
I acctually thought "Steiners attack" was something they made up in "Downfall" LOL :)
The Hitler parodies on CZcams feature Steiner quite a bit!
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Mustard gas is ironic. To think that Hitler survived WW1 with an encounter from that and Speer may have been successful towards the ends of WW2. Although by this stage there were several-Tabun,Soman,at least. Lethal nerve gases highly dangerous.
Also incredible Hitler acting .Moments of unstable rage, speaking in a depressing trance, tinged with occasional sentimental overtones of times lost long ago. This has all been backed up by historical accounts as how Hitler came across towards the end.
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