@pearlsnaredrummer77 The RAF did bomb the Berghof in preparation for a potential last stronghold from the S.S., which never happened. I visited the site three years ago, where also the Kehlstein house or 'Eagle's Nest' still stands. The bunker complexes, which survived the bombings, are available to tour as well. Beautiful country in the Alps and amazing history.
- Reich Marshall Goering assures me that everything is under control. - Last time he told you that, the British bombed Berlin. - ...good point. Let me sign that paper.
Battle of Britain Note This says a lot: It was not until the Luftwaffe radio monitoring service and the German Post office set up their listening stations on the coast of France in July 1940 that the Luftwaffe realized it was up against something new and of vital importance. First the operators discovered that the ether on the 12 meter band was alive with signals radiating out across the channel from the tall and seemingly silent radar masts along the English coast. The second shock came as the Channel convoy battles developed. British voices could be heard on H.F. accurately directing formations of fighters towards unseen German raiders. The air was full of voices, calmly and systematically placing fighters here and there and guiding others back to base. It dawned on the listeners that this was part of a complex and smooth-running organization of great size. - Chapter 10 "The System" from "The Narrow Margin - The Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power" Derek Wood and Derek Dempster (c) 1961
Behind the scenes historical context: Hitler was at his mountainside Berghof celebrating Herman Feigelein’s marriage to Eva Braun’s sister. The wedding reception was held at the Eagles Nest, above the Berghof (still in existence today as a restaurant). The celebration lasted for several days, meanwhile the allied invasion of Normandy took place. Hitler departed the Berghof in early July, never to return.
I'm a bit confused here. Do you think this is Stauffenberg's first visit to Hitler in Berghof? From what I know, Hitler greeted Stauffenberg outside his house. The second visit, Stauffenberg brought a bomb but Himmler was not there. So he cancelled the mission.
Wells that’s what all our Ivy League educated politicians here in the US do. They vote and usually sign laws that are hundreds and sometimes thousands of pages long without ever reading a quarter or any of it.
Minor detail even if he had read it there's no guarantee he would have realised the implications. All that would show is that the new plan doesn't include the SS. Assuming he remembered what the original plan said there's still no certainty that he would put two and two together.
@@florinivan6907 exactly. He didn't understand the implications of the document in front of him in spite of reading it; because it had been drafted by a beaurocrat with the express purpose of obfuscating it's true intentions. The textbook definition of virtually all legislation now. They even give them cute names like "Patriot Act"
I think part of why Goering acted like a buffoon during the war was because he was drug-addled and also just playing Hitler's toady. After the war, weaned off of drugs, he was far mentally sharper during the Nuremberg Trial and actually nearly succeeded in momentarily derailing it.
"Goring has assured me the Luftwaffe can halt the attack on Normandy and supply 750,000 cut off German soldiers in Stalingrad by air. Also Goring has assured me the Luftwaffe will be able provide our U-Boats with the necessary fuel by dropping barrels into the ocean. Goring is also my acid my dealer"
Ajinkya Tarodekar the Nazi SS uniforms were. However most of the German Wehrmacht uniforms in WW2 were modified versions of the German Imperial uniforms from WW1 and Hugo Boss just produced them.
Are we just going to ignore the *GENIUS* of the camera focusing on Himmler with the words "choosing who will live and who will die..." Next-level directing. Amazing movie.
Fits in many ways. Not just because Himmler was the central figure under Hitler for the Holocaust, but also because of the leading Nazis under Hitler Himmler was the most into German mythology and pagan mysticism, and also because Himmler and his SS were responsible for internal security and thus the real key obstacle and target of the Valkyrie plan.
I like the whole atmosphere. The idyllic landscape and stilish Berghoff, the eary music contrasted by the chuckling madmen, the inner strife that was signature nazi stuff. Well done.
Bruno Ganz gets all the press with his incredible performance in downfall. But the actor playing hitler here is incredible too. The hunched posture, the delusional and egotistical personality, and the deep baritone speaking voice. Not as iconic and brilliant as Bruno Ganz, but pretty slept on in my opinion
I think so. i have a real picture of Hitler in around 1942. And it's seems more correct. Brink ganz is also correct for the near the end Hitler where hè gained more weight due all the abuse
@@luisvaldes1568 Ian McKellen played Hitler in a 1989 TV movie called Countdown to War and I thought he had Hitler's inflections and speech patterns down pat.
Hitlers speaking English. But his voice is correct. Look up his REAL normal voice. He never had a light scratchy voice like he did in rants. His real voice was buttery as hell
Low baritone. He used the break, which on that voice type is lower than say a tenor like Franklin Roosevelt would have been, in order to sound like he was at the end of his rope emotionally. I can't think of a speaker who exploited getting his voice to crack on purpose any better than Hitler. Bill Clinton's scratchy "I feel your pain" is perhaps a very distant 2nd.
@Miscellaneous Stuff Goebbels was definitely the most loyal but I’m pretty sure after Himmler surrendered to the Americans by the permission of A.H, they didn’t know it was him at first and just before he killed himself he said “I’m Heinrich Himmler loyal follower of A.H”
Actually that's a Czechoslovakian Shepherd there's a big difference a German Shepherd will normally have mostly Brown around its face except for except for its mouth and it's a nose a Czechoslovakian has an all black face
I love how worried everyone looks in this scene, Geobbels knows of the struggle that awaits them, Reich Marshal Göriñg looks tense probably because of the drugs he’s on and immense pressure of his luftwaffe to repel the red army and Normandy landings.
Goebbles looks like he would shoot either of them if they spoke too far out of line, Göring knew that the Normandy landings were most certainly out of control for the Wehrmacht and just feigns confidence, Himmler looks like he's analyzing Stauffenberg to determine what he's really up to, Keitel is there just to annoy Fromm and Hitler still retains some semblance of normalcy, because by early 1945 he would already be suffering a breakdown. Speer is rather quiet
Goring always thought that the luftwaffe could be at all places at ones and that they could do more than was realisticly possible of an air force in that time. If they had a good leader then the second world war wouldve been entirely different
@@bpdbhp1632Even with good leaders you can't have more planes or ships or tanks than the resources you have. Considering the awful strategic situation of Germany they got pretty much the best they could possibly hope for or about 90% of what was realistic.Everyone talks about how much more the germans could get few ever talk about how Germany could have lost it all in 1939 or 1940. Germany getting to Moscow in 1941 was plausible. Germany winning the entire war before the US got the bomb not really. The germans had a very weak hand in 1939. Considering the circumstances they got about the most that was plausible. The more they won the less plausible it got for them to maintain that winning streak.
You know what I don't respect? Falcone looking upset at the guy who requested for some fresh tea to be brought in. Why would he be upset at such a mundane request? He was leaving the room and could easily pass the word on to the staff.
@@cashewnuttel9054 That's really interesting because I haven't noticed any upset on Fromm's face after Keitel asked him to care for fresh tea. If you notice any upset then congrants on being so discerning or astute.
3:10 I think what everyone over looked in this scene is Goebbels' look on his face right after Hitler says everything is fine (with Normandy). Goebbels knows it's not, but you see his fear to speak up.
@fastdak25 I'm sorry but your comment is very cringe inducing. 1st this is a movie and everything you witnessed was written by the person who wrote the script. Yes the meeting did happen in real life but do you really expect the writers to reenact it verbatim? not to mention the movement of the actors, the mood, the facial expressions all of that is scripted. 2nd If you think Goebbels knew about Normandy and did not speak of it because he was "afraid" of Hitler then I'm sorry but you're a dumbass. You would think he would tell Hitler since they're on the same side, and both want to win the war? That's why people in general have meetings to work things out if there is an issue? In this case a WAR TO WIN? but I guess you wouldn't think about that you idiot.
Depression and discomfort? Those are the things that the Nazis got rid of before the war, including poverty and suicides. Hitler was pretty much elected chancellor by the people before he assumed dictatorship. Apparently he fulfilled all promises of better and happier Germany following the Great Depression.
Yes, but the seating area was to the right of the window, not the left as seen here, and the fireplace was at the back of the room rather than at the left of the window. They obviously went to a lot of trouble getting the set as accurate as possible, so this was probably done for cinematic reasons, maybe power better being seen coming from stage left or something like that, and the fireplace needed to be in shot for other symbolic reasons.
With a World War being lost I doubt the scene would be so light hearted. They are meeting in the middle of a light purple carpet. The carpet to me symbolizes them awash in a sea of blood.
Here's a neat little detail: At 1:37 you can see that Albert Speer is wearing an Organization Todt armband. Organization Todt was a civil and military engineering firm that was founded by Fritz Todt. Speer succeeded Todt as the head of that organization, and also as the Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions after the latter died in a plane crash in 1942. Speer was originally supposed to be on the same plane. It has been suggested but never proven that Todt was assassinated on Hitler's orders, because he had previously recommended that Hitler sue for peace with Russia. Todt's production figures also suggested that the German economy could not support the defeat of Russia.
@@ajchovanecWhile Bormann never left Hitlers side, Speer was in attendance at the Berghof during this timeframe so it would make more sense to show him in this group as opposed to Bormann.
Goering was constantly giving Hitler bad advice. From the threat of Allied strategic bombing, to the development of long range allied fighters, to the threat from the west the Allied landings posed. I don't know if this exact scene played out like this in real life but it encapsulates Goering's role in the whole thing perfectly. A drug addled buffoon living in a dream world, elevated to a position of power and influence solely because of his loyalty to Hitler.
@@nicholask7173 You should read up on him. He was a 100% political appointee. Early supporter of the Nazi party, long before it had power. And he was an aristocrat with money, so his early support really meant something.
Shockingly similar to Hitler's actual voice. There only exists one known recording of Hitler's speaking voice during a small private meeting. It was a conversation that was recorded in secret. The man's actual indoor speaking voice was very methodical and deliberate. He had a very low pitch voice. He had excellent control over his voice and how he presented himself in different contexts and different audiences.
When I watched this scene the first time, it was really tense for me because I thought that when Hitler was reading the document, he would notice the changes in the document that'd be used against him. Now, the more I watch it, the more I realise that when he opened the folder and started reading, he was actually clueless and started talking about Wagner and the Valkyries to try and disguise the fact that he didn't have the slightest idea of what was in front of him and signed it anyway whilst hiding his ignorance about it.
More likely it was the fact that being such a long and large file he skimmed through most of it and didn’t bother analysing it in detail. He just knew the broad strokes of what the document outlined.
I knew it. I had a feeling that Hitler wasn't reading it at all. Only probably the first paragraph and nothing else. He was already thinking of something else, that is why he signed it to get it out of the way
@@attilaamihan6196 his eye was badly damaged during a strafing run in Africa earlier in the film, and it couldn't be saved. Now he has only one eye, while carrying the damaged one with him in a little box out of sentiment I guess
Few small inadequacies: -The Berghof was against the slope a mountain, not on top as we see at the beginning - Himmler was very rarely at the Berghof, all 3 at the same time even more - The round table with the globe where they sit was actually on the right in the room, not the left
Not only was Himmler rarely at the Berghof but he was not a member of Hitler's "inner circle" which we see here. He did not belong to the clique which contained Goerring, Goebbels & others, which regularly associated exclusively with Hitler. In fact for a long time he rarely met with Hitler himself at all, so it's very unlikely he would ever have been here
Amazing scene, such tension, such ambiance, such atmosphere. I believe at 3:20, when Hitler says that Normandy is of no consequence, Staffonborg knows he has to go through with this. There is no choice. Hitler is delusional and his top cabinet are afraid to tell him anything that he doesn't wish to hear.
Indeed. A well-made movie, though not 100% accurate. The issue of Normandy, for example. Pretty much every German thought that what was happening in Normandy was just a diversionary force and that the real invasion was about to happen soon in Pas-de-Calais. I think I’m correct in saying that it would take two weeks for Hitler to realize that Normandy is the real deal. Still, the filmmakers nailed this movie. One of my favorites.
The only ones who told Hitler the truth about the situation at Normandy were Generals Von Rundstedt and Erwin Rommel, but the little madman refused to accept the truth and his yesmen like Goreing and Kietel helped feed into his delusions. There was also the fact that the Germans believed the fake inflated tanks and alleged secondary "main" landing forces that were supposed to strike at Calais were being led by Patton, someone the German high command actually feared and respected as a military officer. They never conceived that Patton was the diversion instead.
@@TopGunner1994well allied intelligence did an amazing job of convincing German command that Normandy was a diversion. They created a fake army. Thousands of fake tanks, aircraft, gliders. They had a couple of thousand men just producing fake radio chatter. What really sold it was that Eisenhower appointed Patton commander of that army. The germans were convinced that Patton would command the assault and not Monty and Bradley.
@@TopGunner1994it’s pretty close to accurate, probably about as accurate as you can get. I don’t think you can get something 100% accurate, now if it was 30% that would be different.
Immortal, Is that a serious question? It is about the attempt, by German officers, to assassinate Hitler, take over Germany, and stop the war on July 20, 1944.
Sturmi I think he looked second best to Ganz as a pre-bunker Hitler. He has the height, mellow demeanor, decent accent, piercing eyes and his hair isn't a wig.
Major mistake here. Hitler never wore civilian clothes once the war started. In solidarity with the troops, he vowed never to take his uniform off until victory was achieved. Obviously the director was looking at some of Eva Braun's home movies taken at the Berghof before the war that show Hitler wearing a suit similar to the one he's wearing here.
I can forgive the clothing mistake but what I'm tired of seeing is party members wearing the large NSDAP badge on civilian clothes. Conspiracy (2001) got this right.
@@RoosterMontgomery conspiracy is my favourite film when it comes to the portrayal of the nazis. Not just visually but the acting was spot on. The way they discuss the destruction of the Jews at the Wansee conference as if its literally just another political meeting over champagne and caviar. Utterly chilling. Stanley Tucci playing Adolf Eichmann was great aswell
Adolf Hitler apparently possessed a kind of personal charisma and magnetism that drew people to him and made them want to follow him without question, no matter what he said or told them to do. Speer tries to describe it in his book but cannot quite put it in to words. I think that this scene, in the combination of Bamber's performance and the eerie music, manages to capture some sense of what it must have been like. It creates a mysterious, mystical emotional response in the viewer, quite uncanny.
@@specialagentorange4329 He has power at this point, but I think he had that magnetism long before he gained power. It was a big part of his political success.
Fun fact: General Fromm would be executed for letting the conspiracy go ahead. Keitel, despite surviving the Fall of Berlin, was tried at Nuremberg and hanged. The executioner fobbed the whole thing though. Keitel hit his head on the trap door on the way down.
I believe a lot of them did, they built the trapdoor too small and the rope was not the right length leading to one of them, might have been Kietel, taking 15 minutes to die. Of course this could be a exaggeration.
Lewis Taylor the point hani saad is alluding to, is Goebbells was alive to the consequences about to occur and ‘realised’ them, Hitler fell into his own bubble of hysteria and left his close ministers to deal with the rest, especially Martin Bormann who C. Fest describes as ‘more powerful than Hitler’ in 1944.
I don't know if this scene is accurate or if the others were all this deluded, but it is true that Goebbels, fanatic though he was, was rational and realistic. He constantly struggled to rein in the over-optimistic and over-positive propaganda coming from the Army and Party which were outside his government ministry, because he knew they undermined the credibility of the regime with the masses
@@777jones Goebbels - failed novelist. Himmler - failed (?) chicken farmer. Speer - architect but not exactly failed. Goering was a famous war hero from WW1, a fighter ace, commanded the Red Baron's squadron, and won not only the Iron Cross but also WW1's top award, the "Blue Max" which Hitler (not being an officer) was ineligible for.
No kidding. Showing the 'inner circle' of the Nazi regime in the same room and how they look really close to their real life counterparts makes this scene even more tense.
The one thing we can credit the Nazi's for is having a leadership made up of men who were like Dick Tracey villains, between Hitler's moustache, Goering being morbidly Obese, Himmler's creepy spectacles and haircut and Goebbles looking like a mummy, it makes casting them in films easy, just put on enough prosthectics and bobs yer uncle.
In May 1991, my wife, young son and I stayed in what was once Albert Speer house just down the main road from the Berghof. Our room was indeed Albert and Margaret’s bedroom. Each morning we sat and had breakfast on the balcony and looked down to Berchtesgaden and surrounding area, stunning. Had lunch in the Platterhof (General Walker Hotel) and would venture down in to the bunker system. A few years ago returned…all gone apart from the museum. SS barracks, diplomats house (near the Berghof) Goerings house and so on, so much history destroyed. Now a huge car park…
Yes, we were at the general Walker hotel the week before it closed forever (Sept 1994). They gave us a great tour of the area to include all the bunkers underneath. There were a few tunnels that have been locked up for 40 years that they managed to open up and explored them as well. Unforgettable.
It really is unfortunate that so much of that was destroyed in the bombing raids. History, even the darkest parts of history should be preserved for future generations to learn from
I frickin' love this movie, not only because it is historically accurate, but it also has BALLS to show the swastika and an accurate portrayal of the german uniforms and as well as all the actors' makeup which is also quite close to their real life counterparts
It did whitewash Stauffenberg's rather complicated history with Hitler. He was never an opponent of Hitler in the early days. He celebrated the invasion of Poland and also the defeat of France. He showed little sympathy for the Polish people who were massacred. It was only really after the war seemed irrecoverably lost that he joined the plot to kill Hitler. He was a hero however as he took it upon his person to kill Hitler. Another issue with the film is that the plot (in reality) didn't come close to succeeding. Kershaw writes that 'Conspiring to arrange a coup d' etat in a police state is scarcely a simple matter. But even in the existential circumstances prevailing, much smacked of dilettante organisation'. The film doesn't portray this. Paradoxically, the film is so well written and gripping that the viewer may actually believe that they will kill Hitler. Even when we all know how he met his demise!
@@Saintinthecity-wh9nl Maybe so, but it is known that he was disgusted with the treatment of Jews and from what I've read saw the horror of the invasion of the Soviet Union (and how the Nazis treated the captured areas). Stauffenberg wasn't a perfect hero, but he was a man who came to his senses and I believe tried to do right from then on.
@@thunderbird1921 Yes, that is correct. He did come to revile the methods of the Nazis and he deserves enormous credit for taking it upon himself to carry out the assassination.
its not SWASTIKA its HAKENCREUZ which literally translates tp Hooked Cross . Attempts to equate Christian Hakenkreuz with Hindu Swastika have still not stopped, it takes huge amount of BALLS to live with that arrogance and ignorance
@@karanshandilya4366 You're out here trying to correct most of the Earth and everyone who doesn't speak German so I'll correct you and say it's not just Hindu but also Native American and Shinto and Confucianist and Buddhist and basically every other culture has also used that symbol at one point or another. Smartass
The actor playing Hitler here played the Rev Collins in the wonderful Pride and Prejudice arrangement in 1995! (The Colin Firth adaptation). Who would have thought! Excellent casting!!
For long years, I'd thought of Cruise as a lightweight actor. Valkyrie, and von Stauffenberg gave him something to get his teeth into. Perhaps being surrounded by the cream of British workaday actors brushed away that Hollywood sparkle and brought out the artist in him.
It's just for narrative convenience to get the whole hierarchy a cameo. But they did all have their own villas in close proximity to the Berghof, and were all competing for influence with Hitler.
Beppo85 Goebbels only started to dislike Göring in 1945, when he was ordered to be executed, it was another shot to get popular with Hitler, it worked, just not the way he wanted, since he was chancellor with no choices.
Visited the Berghof in January of 2020. You can still explore the tunnels built beneath it, as almost all the original structures above ground have been destroyed.
@@gambigambigambi no, American and British bombers obliterated most of the buildings just days before the war ended. Needless destruction, they knew Hitler and the top brass weren't there. Then the French occupation troops rolled in, raped and looted the civilians of the area.
This scene speaks volumes of how incompetent Hitler became when the daily injections of amphetamine and morphine had been going on for awhile! The man was once sharp, crazy but sharp.. Also surrounding yourself with yes men never helps anyone!
Even in the last 30 days of the war he made many mistakes. He alsmost made the right decision regarding Frankfurt Oder, but then Goering ran into the room and spoke against a retreat.
I can understand the English part, I just can’t understand why the actors aren’t putting on German accents if they are going to speak English while playing German characters? It’s the same for other films as will.
"One cannot understand National Socialism if one does not understand Wagner." How true! One cannot understand how badly Hitler and the Nazis understood Wagner if one does not understand Wagner. The same goes for Nietzsche as well.
Yes for Wagner, but not for Nietzsche. Nietzsche was not a pan-Germanist or a Jew hater. On the contrary, Nietzsche broke with Wagner due to Wagner's anti-Semitic ideas that Nietzsche tells in his essay "The Case of Wagner". In Nietzsche's "Ecce Homo", Nietzsche harshly criticizes German people and he mentions his disgust with anti-Semitic people saying "I even shook hands with an anti-Semite, then I washed my hands." The reason Nietzsche is associated with Nazism is his sister's support for Hitler. She misinterpreted Nietzsche's ideas such as Übermensch, taking it as if it was about the superiority of Aryan race, and telling her brother Nietzsche would absolutely support the Nazis if he were alive, which was untrue as there are many proofs from Nietzsche's own writings.
@@hugobarrett63 I agree that Nietzsche had a general antipathy concerning German nationalism and reviled anti-Semitism, yet it's also worthy of note that he's considered the father of post modern nihilism in theory. As a nihilist, while he definitely wouldn't have had any desire to be supportive of the Nazis at all, he probably wouldn't have gone out of his way to stop Hitler either. A nihilist is not exactly the kind of person who will put their own self-preservation on the line for the sake of altruism.
@@KiriakosVilchez Dude, Nietzsche was not a nihilist. This is a big misunderstanding about Nietzsche. He saw it something to overcome rapidly. Rather, Nietzsche favored existentialism.
The guys in the room, starting in 1:35: Joseph Goebbels, Wilhelm Keitel, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring and the other one with the brown jacket is probably Albert Speer
There are several serious historical mistakes in this scene. I will only point three most obvious ones. First of all, during the entire war, Hitler never wore anything but military uniform and there was no way, per Nazi military code, he would receive officers without his uniform on. Second and more importantly, Hitler is shown looking at document handed to him by Von Staufenberg without his glasses on. In real life, this would be impossible. It is historically known fact that Hitler suffered from rare case of extreme far-sight and he couldn't read any text (except if it was in very large font) without his glasses on. Third of all, Hitler's retreat Berghof is shown standing at the top of the hill with larger mountains miles behind it. In reality, Berghof was built on the side of the mountain, about halfway to the top, with thick forest directly behind it on hillside.
However, since Hitler barely looked at the document, it is possible that he didn't read any of it and just trusted "his hero" without needing his glasses. Esspecially, since Goering convinced him it isn't neccessary.
Let me just respond 5 moths later Point out the biggest mistake. That this scene is complete fiction and that, Operation Valkyrie was made in Winter 1941, in case of a civil war/ riots or a sudden naval Invasion.
Actually Hitler frequently wore civilian dress (suit, tie and hat) when he was at the Berghof during the war, check out Eva Braun's homemovies, he's wearing a suit and tie in many of them.
I dont remember this scene but man, talk about intense! And the set is AMAZING! I’m assuming the shot of the residence was computer graphics but even the interior bears a striking resemblance to the actual Berghof!
@@saeedafyouni619 EXACTLY. DESPIT HIM LOOKING LIKE SPEERS, ITS SUPPOSED TO BE REICH SECRATARY MARTIN BORMIN.SPEERS WAS RARELY AT THE SHINE DIG GET TOGETHERS
Next time how about you turn your shithole country into the greatest economic powerhouse the world has ever seen, then you can make your language the universal language. Then you can put your movies in whatever tongue you want.
This movie turned out to be so much more than I thought it would be. I'm amazed that the director could create such a sense of tension and suspense over events that actually happened and to which we already know the outcome. That's brilliant film making. Well done.
I agree. You have this sense of "They might just pull this off!" If only the meeting had not been relocated to a room with the windows open, which weakened the force of the blast.
My favourite scene too , The Burghof looks detail perfect, and Bamber's Hitler is spot on too - well done Bryan Singer and Tom Cruise, I think is the best accurate movie portrayal yet.
the Berghod is close to how it was but the surrounding Hotel Zum Turken isn't in the digital reconstruction. It his still there today but the Berghof isn't.
After the war, the estate was completely removed, only a few wall remains and the large retaining wall behind the Berghof, which supported the slope. I have already been there twice and stood where this large hall with the panoramic window used to be, it is always a strange feeling. The two roads that led up from the main road to the Berghof are also still there. But they are overgrown with greenery, so you can't walk on them any more. This famous vantage point, where the dictator often liked to be photographed, is also still there. He walked there every day with his entourage and then took his afternoon tea in a specially built teahouse at this vantage point. All that is left of this tea house is some rubble and the entrance stairs. Some of my photos: www.flickr.com/gp/73944665@N07/40y113
This scene does a magnificent job of conveying Hitler's evil, and yet also showing the weird personal magnetism he had that could pull people in and make them believe in his ideas.
I like it that they portrayed famous show jumping champion and olympic gold medalist Generalmajor Heinz Brandt at least ambiguously. What a lot of people don’t know is that even though he was promoted and given honours posthumously after his death following the explosion, the truth is that he was considered a traitor within Hitler’s circle because he was discovered as being vaguely aware of the resisters plotting: in his fever delirium, after being severely injured, he revealed he knew Stauffenberg was behind the attack. Therefore Brandt’s father was not allowed to bring his body for a proper burial, instead he was told his son was a traitor and he was cremated and disposed of like the other resisters. He was probably killed on Hitler’s orders for letting that slip, he might have survived the explosion otherwise. I imagine it must have been painful for Stauffenberg to leave that bomb there and not be able to say a word of warning to his friend from their times at the Hannover Kavallerieschule.
@The Stalker Elevator boots with inner soles go a long way. I remember seeing behind the scenes photos from The Irishman. De Niro was wearing these boots with high soles. It looked like he was walking on stilts. This was to create the image of the imposing stature of the real Frank Sheeran who was 6"4. De Niro is 5"9. They must have stopped using the boots because in the film De Niro stands around three inches taller than 5"6 Pacino. He looks his regular height throughout the film.
It’s an insult to Fromm basically saying he is nothing more than a servant of tea lady. That’s why he tells the col he would appreciate if Keitel was dealt with after his plans whatever they are.
What an incredibly tense, and critical moment. The production and details of the actors' expressions keep you on your toes. Watched the movie before. Really good one.
Hitler's private residence Berghof was absolutely similar to the sets of this movie. This reveals the amount of research the team has put into to match the intricacies in the movie.
2:31 he was the best actor to play Hitler in my opinion as well as Bruno Ganz. He looks like he is dying and losing his sanity as Hitler did. He looks completely indifferent and Apathetic as well as calculating. His appearance is nearly perfect and he has Hitler's voice too. it's a shame he was only in 4 scenes that I remember and should have been in more.
I agree. They treated Hitler's character like something we should only see sparingly. In his first scene, his face only sees the camera a couples of times till the Berghof scene. He's also the only character allowed to have a German accent. Smart filmmaker choices.
@@BM-ru7ef There’s only three known recordings of Hitler speaking in his everyday voice. His normal voice was much deeper than his public speaking voice.
Wrong. Best actor for Adolf was Robert Carlyle featuring in "the rise of evil. Hence the 7 emmy awards. The rest of actors in different movies all sucks donkey ballz.
