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...younger brother, Joe, frozen by the sight of the gun in the masked man’s hand, stood in the street 10 feet away and watched Jim die. With this event as an historical backdrop, “Five Minutes of Heaven” director Oliver Hirschbiegel probes the intensely personal nature of the divisive conflict that has plagued Ireland over the last century. Best known for “Downfall,” his Oscar-nominated 2004 chronicle of Hitler’s final days, Hirschbiegel again humanizes a seemingly irredeemable man to create a fascinating drama that...
Director Oliver Hirschbiegel and writer/producer Bernd Eichinger have chosen the bunker as the setting of their film Downfall, loosely based on a book of the same title by Hitler-biographer Joachim Fest...
...hrer is even creepier when he succumbs to whispery-voiced, almost catatonic self-pity as he tries to relate to courtiers. Half of them are (as he is) contemplating suicide, while the rest are plotting desperate escapes. There has been some criticism of director Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated film for humanizing Hitler and his gang, but that's nonsense. Because, of course, they were human. The world has since known dictators just as insane. And we can be sure their acolytes exhibited the same range of ugly behavior (denial, cynicism, narcissism) shown in this film. The inclusion...
...Hitler was a raving lunatic. Now a new German film about Hitler's final days in the bunker, The Downfall, is stirring prodigious controversy, because its Hitler is not only a monster but also a human being. The Downfall, which opened in Germany last week, was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, who has mainly worked in German TV, and stars Swiss actor Bruno Ganz as Hitler. If Ganz's resemblance to the Führer is eerie, it is the sensitivity of his performance - at times introspective and at others explosive - that is truly unsettling. The intimacy springs both from Ganz...
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