The map of Europe shown along with the opening credits show the post-war frontiers with the Oder-Neisse-Line as Germany's Eastern frontier.
The map of Europe shown along with the opening credits show a unified Iberian Peninsula, although this union ended in 1640.
This narrative, which boasts the authoritative stamp of Sir Hugh Trevor Roper is a classic. An Anglo-Italian production, it had fine scenes, acting and script.
A defeated Adolf Hitler (a powerful and convincing portrayal by Alec Guinness) spends the last dismal days of his wretched life in a bunker while everything falls apart around him.Director Ennio De Concini relates the bleakly compelling story at a deliberate pace, astutely captures a strong brooding mood of encroaching dread and doom, and tosses in some nice touches of dark irony and black humor for good measure.
Thank God Hitler didn't use the force...Downfall used a lot from this movie...
In June 2012, "Hitler: The Last Ten Days" was released on DVD in Brazil and I have just watched it. I found it boring and weird, with Adolf Hitler and his high command speaking British English.
If you've seen 'Downfall', this will pale in comparison. I didn't find Alec Guinnesse's performance of Hitler particularly convincing.
This one, HBO's 'the Bunker' and 'Downfall' all have good points. But if you want to understand Hitler - this is by far the best to me.
Alec Guinness becomes Hitler, and it is the most realistic portrayal I've ever seen. Derek Jacoby and Anthony Hopkins come no where close to this in their respective films, Inside The Third Reich and The Bunker.
How does one approach the towering figure of Adolf Hitler, a figure so out-sized in his cruelty, so colossal in his infamy, that it staggers the imagination to conceive that he actually lived and breathed? Yet he was as human as you and I and gifted with some of the virtues and most of the flaws that flesh is heir to.
Alec Guinness's eerie performance as Hitler centers a deeply ironic if sloppy look at the Führer's final hours in his bunker. It's not the film one needs to see for that story (2004's German film "Downfall" stands supreme), but it scores some points with a terrific cast and weird bits of black humor.
