It is certainly an interesting portrayal, but the film portrays him as a leader more worried about his legacy than his country as he ignores the needs of his people and avoids consequences by committing suicide.
It wasn't really sympathetic to Hitler, but it was to some figures more or less around him. Like the SS doctor helping civilians and convincing his fellow SS officers to stop shooting themselves and surrender, or the fanatical Hitlerjugend squad swept by the Russian attack, and of course his female secretary who manages to escape from Berlin with the HJ group's survivor and they bike off into sunlight in the final scene.
Guess Who's Back is a quite interesting German movie about Hitler in modern Berlin. It's mostly a comedy.
You couldn't make Downfall today. It would be like trying to make a movie that showed Robert E. Lee in a sympathetic light.
It is certainly an interesting portrayal, but the film portrays him as a leader more worried about his legacy than his country as he ignores the needs of his people and avoids consequences by committing suicide.
Robert E. Lee was sympathetic. Problem is, he was trying to fight a moral war against a tyrant.
It wasn't really sympathetic to Hitler, but it was to some figures more or less around him. Like the SS doctor helping civilians and convincing his fellow SS officers to stop shooting themselves and surrender, or the fanatical Hitlerjugend squad swept by the Russian attack, and of course his female secretary who manages to escape from Berlin with the HJ group's survivor and they bike off into sunlight in the final scene.
Guess Who's Back is a quite interesting German movie about Hitler in modern Berlin. It's mostly a comedy.