Director Oliver Hirschbiegel remembers seeing Bruno Ganz transform into Adolf Hitler for the first time. Hirschbiegel was casting for Der Untergang – aka Downfall – the controversial 2004 film about ...

At this point, it’s impossible to say World War II films are rare. The world’s most recent global conflict was a dire warning against wanton violence, and its inherent lessons to humanity are ...

Adolf Hitler had to be charming in private and charismatic in public; he was a politician. How else would he have won such loyalty from his inner circle and the German population? Downfall provides a ...

A short clip from a 2004 movie about Adolf Hitler has ended up speaking for a generation of discontented Internet surfers, as well as pushed the boundaries of copyright law, noted a Massachusetts ...

Oliver Hirschbiegel has signed up for a biopic of Nazi resistance fighter Georg Elser. The Downfall director will tell the little-known story of the German carpenter. Hirschbiegel's 2004 Downfall - ...