Der Untergang / Downfall (Extended Edition) 2004 DVDRip - German torrent

Der Untergang / Downfall (2004)
Extended Edition

PAL DVD rip
170 minutes (credits cutted out)
720x400 xvid, 25 fps, ~192kbps vbr 48khz mp3

German with English and Croatian subtitles
Het Duits met Engelse und Kroatisch
www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/

With 20+ minutes of footage not shown in theaters and English subtitles built
from scratch, this torrent is the only place in the world to find an English
language version of the extended cut of Der Untergang.


The great Swiss-German actor Bruno Ganz gives a staggering performance as Adolf
Hitler in this full-scale realist German production detailing the last ten days
of the Third Reich. As the Red Army rampages through Berlin, Hitler and his
staff have retreated to the bunker under the Reich Chancellery. They are all
here—Himmler, Goebbels, Speer, the entire fascinating, loathsome crew of
commanders, mad visionaries, and toadies (all brilliantly acted)—and, leading
them still, a man so physically ill and constricted in movement that he looks
like a broken-down puppet from a Bavarian traveling circus. The puppet comes to
life, of course, in appalling self-pitying rants that are borderline funny. The
entire movie teeters on the edge of sick comedy-in particular such scenes as the
death of the Goebbels children, one by one, at the hands of their mother—and at
times one longs for a coldly malicious ironist like Brecht or Fassbinder to come
in and take over. The attempt to re-create Hitler in realistic terms has always
been morally and imaginatively questionable—a compromise with the unspeakable
that borders on complicity with it.


Torrent released August 11, 2006, re-uploaded Jun 16, 2012