17. September 2004, 16:09

After a (too) long, long time I was in cinema again. And this time even in a German movie! I don't like German movies very much, because there are just stupid German teenage-comedies or stupid German comedies about the former GDR. But "Der Untergang" ("The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich") is far away from being a stupid comedy!

What is ist about? This picture shows, what happened in Berlin, in the "Fuehrer"-bunker during the last days of World War II in April 1945.

It is the first time, that Hitler is shown so close in a German movie, as a private human being. And this man in this movie has nothing fascinating, nothing glorious or anything else - he is just an old, ill and hatefull man far beyond reality.

This movie is almost a documentary, because it is shown what has happened like it was, with most possible reality. But what has happened was dramatic enough, so it doesn't need a dramatic story around it, in my point of view. Thre is this atmosphere of fear, end, death and suicide and still tremendous fanatism.

After the end of the movie there was a rather long silence of the audience in the cinema room, what I have seen very, very rarely after a movie.