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 ...

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 ...

Who's seen it? I just picked this up used from Block Buster yesterday and it's a fantastic film for those WWII history buffs out there. <BR><BR>The entire movie depicts the final months of Hitler's ...

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 ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor who portrayed Adolf Hitler in Oscar-nominated film "Downfall" and the kindly grandfather in "Heidi", died of cancer at his home in Zurich on Saturday ...

Plots to kill Hitler, whether based on true events or not, are familiar fodder for filmmakers, but Oliver Hirschbiegel’s forthcoming Georg Elser will focus more on the would-be assassin than the ...

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 - ...

A short but illuminating book by veteran French historian Claude Quétel examines the truths and myths surrounding the Nazi ...

“Film records the profound suffering that war brings to mankind.” That is how the Beijing International Film Festival explained a focus it has unveiled on war and peace in a special “Film and Peace” ...

'The Zone of Interest' and 'The Thin Red Line' are also among the movies exploring "the tragedy of war" that will screen at the 15th edition of the Chinese film festival. By Georg Szalai Global ...