Bruno Ganz studied Parkinson's patients in a Swiss hospital in preparation to play Hitler.
The only existing recording of Hitler's conversation helped Bruno Ganz prepare for the role. This recording records a private conversation between Hitler and Field Marshall Gustav Mannerheim. Hitler unexpectedly appeared on June 4, 1942 to congratulate Mannerheim on his 75th birthday. This smart Finn secretly recorded the conversation in the train-Hitler was not allowed to record and take pictures in private. In this recording of about 11 minutes, Hitler was very relaxed and calm, and described his views on war to Mannerheim. In 1992, one of two copies of this recording was discovered, and both scientists and historians have done research on it.
When Bruno Ganz attended the Palm Springs Film Festival in January 2005, he said that at first he did not want to accept the role of Adolf Hitler, but after watching "Hitler's End" (Albin Skoda played Hitler), he realized that This role can be more in-depth, so he accepted the invitation to play Hitler.
The German National Democratic Party is a well-known right-wing party and a political asylum for some skinheads and neo-Nazis. It was almost ruled illegal by the Federal Court. Karl Richter, a member of the party, managed to play an assistant to General William Keitel and got into the movie. When asked to try on the military uniform, he raised his right hand and shouted "Hi, Hitler!" The filmmaker did not know who he was, nor did he know that he was actually very familiar with the tasks required.
The portrait that Hitler has been staring at in the movie is Frederick the Great.
The film began an interview with Trout Jonge from the documentary "Blind Spot" filmed in April 2001. Due to serious health problems, Jung was unable to attend the premiere of "Blind Spot". The film’s premiere was a huge success. The photographer rushed to the hospital to inform Jung, she said: "My life's work has been completed, and now I can finally breathe a sigh of relief." A few hours later, Joan, who had been fighting for a long time with cancer. Grid closed his eyes and died at the age of 82.
In the movie, the audience can see Magda Goebbels writing a letter to her ex-husband's son Harold Kuang-his picture is in front of her. Quant was the only son of Magda Goebbels who survived World War II. In 1944, Air Force Lieutenant Quant was captured by Allied forces in Italy.
Among the 37 real characters mentioned in the movie, Rochas Mish was the only bunker survivor who was still alive when the movie was released.
Most of the location of the film was shot in St. Petersburg, Russia. There are two reasons for choosing St. Petersburg: First, there are many German-style buildings in the city. The second is that many streets in the city have no or few modern advertisements and other commercial elements.
According to Albert Speer and Trout Jonge, many of Hitler's policies in the film are accurate and consistent with historical facts.
When Magda Goebbels and Doctor Stenfinger showed up, Goebbels’ children were reading a German version of "Sam Pig" by the very famous English children’s writer Allie Sen Atri.
Hitler took off his shirt and gave Magda Goebbels the Nazi party gold badge, which was only issued to high-level party members who joined the party in 1925. Hitler awarded himself the No. 1 badge in 1933, although he was not the first to join the party. The Soviets found the badge in the bunker and kept it on the top floor of the Lubyanka KGB headquarters. The badge was discovered by the Russian Federal Security Service in 1996 and exhibited in 2005. On November 18, 2005, when the alarm was triggered, the badge was forcibly stolen. It was not recovered until August 2006.
Corinna Haverchi said that during the filming of the scene where Magda Goebbels poisoned her own child, she almost collapsed. When Goebbels’ children sang together, Bruno Gantz was holding one of the children while playing on his lap. He also had a similar feeling of collapse, because he knew that these children would soon be killed by their parents. Poisoned to death.
The film caused controversy as soon as it was released in Germany. Under the influence of media hype, 3 million people were persuaded to enter the cinema in just one month. That month, "Hamburg Weekly" made a 17-page feature report for the film; the 45th Congress of German historians even agreed to hold a day of debate for the film; former German Chancellor Kohl also categorically stated that the film It’s a good value, and I hope more people can see it.
"The head of state's anger": refers to Hitler's angry roar when he heard that General Steiner did not launch an offensive in this film. This passage is often borrowed by netizens, borrowing "the mouth of the head of state" with subtitles to make a spoof.
