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    Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)

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    Alec Guinness is Adolf Hitler trapped in his bunker while Berlin burns 60 feet above him.

    This biographical film claims to be a completely factual account of the Fuehrer’s final week-and-a-half underground: his 56th birthday party, the last hurrahs, the hurried marriage to Eva Braun (played by German actress Doris Kunstmann) and suicide.

    Hitler’s health is shattered – the result of his narrow escape from assassination by members of his own general staff; his mind is in chaos – a combination of despair and a thoroughly justifiable paranoia, and in his more lucid moments he knows that the war is lost.

    It’s a brave, incredibly detailed performance from Guinness (who looks convincingly like Hitler here), but the film’s Italian writer/director Ennio De Concini conspires against him, cutting to sepia-tinted newsreel footage which is structurally and dramatically pointless.

    He also unwisely adds hindsight in Simon Ward’s idealistic young Hauptmann Hoffman, who not only invades the bunker armed with battalions of postwar guilt but also plants political doubts in the mind of Eva Braun.

    Through Hoffman’s eyes, we see the two kinds of people upon whose shoulders Hitler rode to power: the fanatics who shared his fantasies and the opportunists who shared his lust for power. A sprinkling of both groups now waits listlessly, committed to sharing his fate and the “Viking funeral” he announces for Germany.

    Adolf Hitler
    Alec Guinness
    Hauptmann Hoffmann
    Simon Ward
    General Krebs
    Adolfo Celi
    Hanna Reitsch
    Diane Cilento
    Field Marshal Keitel
    Gabriele Ferzetti
    General Von Greim
    Eric Porter
    Eva Braun
    Doris Kunstmann
    General Burgdorf
    Joss Ackland
    Dr Stumpfegger
    John Barron
    Josef Goebbels
    John Bennett
    Frau Christian
    Sheila Gish
    Fegelein
    Julian Glover
    General Weidling
    Michael Goodliffe
    Martin Bormann
    Mark Kingston
    Trude
    Angela Pleasence
    Walter Wagner
    Andrew Sachs
    Professor Gebhardt
    Timothy West
    Boldt
    Kenneth Colley
    Hanske
    Philip Locke

    Director
    Ennio De Concini

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