Germans Drawn to Hitler Again

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He painted... during the war...

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(Reuters/Hollywood Reporter )"Downfall," a controversial depiction of Adolf Hitler's final days, has won the Bavarian Film Prize's audience award, one of Germany's top film honors, organizer Bayerische Fernsehen said Wednesday.

The epic drama has been a major box office success in Germany, taking in about EUR30 million ($39.8 million), but many critics have condemned "Downfall" for giving the Nazi leader a too-human face.

The audience award was chosen by viewers of Bayerische film magazine Kino Kino, listeners of radio station Bayern 3 and readers of regional newspaper the Abendzeitung.

The film's director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, will receive the award Jan. 14 at a gala ceremony in Munich, coincidentally the birth place of the Nazi Party.

"Downfall" is Germany's official submission for foreign-language Oscar consideration. Newmarket is releasing the film in the United States, with a Feb. 18 bow in New York and Feb. 25 in Los Angeles.

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Originally Posted by conus

Couldn't agree more. It perpetuates "it could never happen here" sentiment. Hitler was a madman, whereas FOX news anchors, for example, are regular Americans simply telling the plain truth for once.

Haha you made a funny!

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I really want to see this movie....

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Originally Posted by FS

I caught a fragment of this movie on TV yesterday, where near the end of the war, Hitler and his closest boys were hiding out in their bunker, and they decided mass suicide would be better than getting caught. The scene where they force the kids to drink poison is truly chilling. :/

Hitler killed himself actually because of the pains he had from a life long sickness.

Yes, I read Mein Kampf

[Sethomas]

Which was written something like 25 years before his isolation and suicide?