Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Acting
Hopkins' physical decay—shaking hands, hunched collapse—is masterclass.
Production
Bunker sets so authentic you'll check for mold on screen.
Writing
Speer's moral gymnastics written like a tragedy, not documentary.
Director
George Schaefer
Anthony Hopkins
Adolf Hitler
Richard Jordan
Albert Speer
Cliff Gorman
Joseph Goebbels
James Naughton
James O'Donnell
Michael Lonsdale
Martin Bormann
Martin Jarvis
Johannes Hentschel
Michael Kitchen
Rochus Misch
Andrew Ray
Major Otto Günsche
Piper Laurie
Magda Goebbels
Susan Blakely
Eva Braun
Geoffrey Bateman
Riebold
Yves Brainville
Gen. Hans Guderian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hopkins prepared by isolating himself for days and eating only Hitler's documented diet—apples, water, and nerve-shredding amphetamine substitutes.
The real James O'Donnell, whose memoir this adapts, was the first American to enter the bunker and found Hitler's blood still wet on the couch.
US
