My Favourite Movie

My favourite movie is "Der Untergang" which is called "Hitler's last 12 days " in Japanese. This War movie was set in Germany, and Germany collaborated with Austria and Italy in making. The director is Oliver Hirschbiegel. Main actors are Bruno Ganz and Alexandra Maria Lara. This movie was put on view in Japan on July 9th, 2005.

The last stage of WW2, Hitler lived in underground of the president's official residence in Berlin. Germany's defeat had already been clearly fact, and Berlin which is a capital city was surrounded by USSR forces. Berlin is the final capture point for USSR, so they advanced and attacked to the central area of Berlin day by day.

This movie show us the confusion of Berlin which is before the fall, the trends of Hitler and his subordinates in the underground and the suicide or the survival after Hitler's suicide. This movie caused the pros and cons all over the world, especially in USA and Israel because of the human representation of Hitler.

The reason why I like this movie is its reality. I like world history very much, especially modern history. This movie is none fiction movie based on the testimony of Gertraud Traudl Junge who was one of a secretary of Hitler. Of course we can't inspect whether it was true or not, but this movie is interesting for me as an entertainment without thinking scholarship.