Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)

Directors

Ennio De Concini

Cast

Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti, Eric Porter, Doris Kunstmann, Joss Ackland, John Bennett

The story

The film is told primarily from the viewpoint of the fictional Hauptmann Hoffmann, an officer in the SS who is assigned to duty in the Führerbunker for what will prove the final days in the life of Adolf Hitler, as the Battle of Berlin rapidly moves towards the final defeat of the crumbling Nazi regime. Hoffmann observes a meeting of Hitler and his chief military staff, where the dire warnings by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and General Hans Krebs of Berlin's imminent encirclement are ignored by Hitler, who orders an assault under the command of Felix Steiner in the belief that it will repel the Red Army. While he is pleased with the…

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