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