Hitler: The Last Ten Days
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| Hitler: The Last Ten Days by Emmett Fox | |
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| Directed by | Ennio De Concini |
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| Written by | Gerhardt Boldt, Ennio De Concini, Maria Pia Fusco, Ivan Moffat, Wolfgang Reinhardt |
| Starring | Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti |
| Running time | 108 min |
| Country | Italy, United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 film depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's suicide. It stars Alec Guinness and Simon Ward.
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[edit] Synopsis
The movie opens with Hitler's 56th birthday on April 20, 1945, and ends 10 days later, with his suicide on April 30.
[edit] Inaccuracies
The motif of this movie is that everybody Hitler ever knew or cared for abandoned him, one by one, before his suicide. While this is believed to be partially true, the movie takes liberties by having everyone, including Eva Braun, betray him.
Compared to reliable accounts of Hitler's final days, this movie is not considered accurate. More specifically:
- Guinness portrays Hitler with gusto, whereas in real life, Hitler spent his last days drugged and brooding.
- Hitler's birthday party is pictured as festive. In real life, Hitler had to be heavily sedated simply to make an appearance. Also, the movie does not show Hermann Göring or Heinrich Himmler, who also showed up for the party.
- Hitler spends time playing with his wooden model of Germania in the bunker, wishing Albert Speer were with him. The real bunker did not hold this wooden model, and Speer actually did visit him several times.
- Hitler is shown being intimate with Eva Braun. In real life, he barely spent any time with her at all in the bunker, and none in private.
- Hitler is depicted as having shot himself almost on a whim, after Eva Braun takes poison to spite him. In reality, Hitler and Braun planned their suicides and had a formal "exit scene."
[edit] Cast
- Alec Guinness - Adolf Hitler
- Simon Ward - Capt. Hoffman
- Adolfo Celi - Gen. Krebs
- Diane Cilento - Hanna Reitsch
- Gabriele Ferzetti - Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
- Eric Porter - Gen. von Greim
- Doris Kunstmann - Eva Braun
- Joss Ackland - Gen. Burgdorf
- John Bennett - Josef Goebbels
- John Barron - Dr. Stumpfegger
- Barbara Jefford - Magda Goebbels
- Sheila Gish - Frau Christian
- Julian Glover - Fegelein
- Michael Goodliffe - Gen. Weidling
- Mark Kingston - Martin Bormann
[edit] Availability
A DVD of this film has been released on 3 June 2008.[1]
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