discussion What is this called .

[Guest]

Could any body tell me the name of the film or tv series that relates to this clip.

Im sure you have seen the parody of Hitler addressing his staff in a beligerant way and in a rage.

And it has been used by many to send up someone they know.

Some have even gone to great leangths to subtitle it for thier purposes.

I would like to know what its called.

Thanks in anticipation.

 

[Ian M]

Err, which clip...

Ian M

 

[michaelm]

Even without the clip I'm willing it's a extract from 'The Bunker'

 

[stona]

I think you are referring to the much and often humorously re-dubbed clip from "Der Untergang" or "Downfall" in English. It's a German film,though the actor playing Hitler with a strong Austrian accent is actually Swiss.It covers the last few days of the nazi regime in the bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery and more widely in Berlin.

It is a fantastic film,get it if you can. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

It took a long time for the German film industry to address WW2 for obvious reasons,but "Das Boot" and Der Untergang" show that when it did,it did it brilliantly.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

Thanks

There are many many on utube and I had to try and get one that didnt have swearing in it

So its the Bunker or the Der Untergang

Thanks very much

Im on a quest

 

[Guest]

Ok its called "Downfall" and is in english subtitles .

Downloading from itunes as I type.

Thanks for the pointers.:goodluck:

 

[geegad]

superb film the secretary who tells this story is also in the documentary the world at war

 

[michaelm]

Of course it's downfall, stupid me I got them mixed up.

 

[stona]

superb film the secretary who tells this story is also in the documentary the world at war

"Traudl" Junge nee Humps.

The film also draws heavily on Trevor- Roper's "Last Days of Hitler" which is itself based on the intelligence report he wrote for Dick White (later head of MI5 and MI6) at the end of the war,establishing Hitler's fate.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

A long but brilliant film :bravo:

 

[Guest]

Ok back from the front.

Watched it all

Without doubt the best WW2 Ive ever seen.(I mean that ernestly).

Brilliant

 

[geegad]

her is another film you might enjoy if you haven't seen already one of the all time modern classics in my books the pianist

 

[Guest]

her is another film you might enjoy if you haven't seen already one of the all time modern classics in my books the pianist

yes I have seen that one.

 

[stona]

I think that "Downfall" is a terrific film too.

I have to say that I've sat through the whole three and a half hour version of "Das Boot" equipped only with a bag of nuts and a bottle of wine and that it is number one on my list of great war films. Truly" Eine Reise ans Ende des Verstandes".

Maybe we should do a thread about it? I bet "The Cruel Sea","Dambusters","Battle of Britain","Ice Cold in Alex","The Longest Day" and many more would feature.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

ice cold in Alex .... my favorite.... absolutely stunning film .... nuff said.

 

[stona]

ice cold in Alex .... my favorite.... absolutely stunning film .... nuff said.

John Mills' best film,a war film has to be a good film first,and he made some stinkers too. Added bonus Sylvia Syms looking hot both literally and metaphorically

Cheers

Steve

 

[papa 695]

I'm with you Steve Das Boot is my favourite

 

[stona]

I'm with you Steve Das Boot is my favourite

Way back in the mid 80s I worked in Munich on a film called Terminus. It was an awful Franco-German Mad Max type thing. The 1:1 scale model U boat on which most of the interior scenes in Das Boot was filmed was still on the site and I had a chance to have a good poke around with one of the German sound engineers who'd worked on the film. Even with just the two of us aboard it was cramped! It certainly gave some food for thought.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

I haven't seen the movie this oft used clip is from but the first, (to my knowledge), useage of the clip was, Hitler's Honda was written off and he gets a BMW, being a bike rider there are 'preconceptions' about certain machines as you get with cars, the BMW thing had a popularity explosion after Long way round but have always had an 'agricultural' reference levelled at them, (as with HD, particularly by Jap bike riders). This clip is absolutely rip roaringly funny. Despite the amusing subtitles, you can see the acting is top notch and the fella playing Hitler probably giving the best weary desperate last days performance i've ever seen.

The link is above, pre warning, there are swear words though.

Re war movies, Ice cold in Alex is truly a classic, I also like Above us the waves, on a more modern theme, Kellys Heroes is excellent entertainment and oddball and his musical paint firing Sherman is just great, on an even more modern note I (much to my surprise), very much like Inglorious 'bar stewards'

As for the thought of being walled up in a tin can underwater of any size, no thanks, i could manage short stints in a little one man 'leisure' sub for the novelty but the people who served on them are braver than I

 

[Guest]

Added bonus Sylvia Syms looking hot both literally and metaphorically

agreed