Movie review - "Downfall" (2005) *****

Stunningly good German film about the last days of Hitler. Done with empathy but you never lose track of what a nutter he is - people like that have always existed but it doesn't follow that you vote them in.Told entirely from the POV of people who survived, which increases its effectiveness. The reality of it all is shocking - we see just your typical office secretaries and clerks gossiping, hanging out,occasionally emerging to the light. Eva Braun is a cheerful dopey type,the young soldiers keen to get into it. It makes things like the Goebbels killing their children all the more horrible. A masterpiece.