Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 biographical drama film depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's suicide. The film stars Alec Guinness and Simon Ward, and features an introduction presented by Alistair Cooke; the original music score was composed by Mischa Spoliansky. The film is based on the book Hitler's Last Days: An Eye-Witness Account (first translated in English in 1973) by Gerhard Boldt,[4] an officer in the German Army who survived the Führerbunker. Location shooting for the film included the De Laurentiis Studios in Rome and parts of England.
Plot
The film opens with Hitler's 56th birthday, on 20 April 1945, and ends 10 days later with his suicide, on 30 April.
Cast
- Alec Guinness – Adolf Hitler
- Simon Ward – Hauptmann Hoffmann
- Adolfo Celi – General Hans Krebs
- Diane Cilento – Hanna Reitsch
- Gabriele Ferzetti – Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
- Eric Porter – General von Greim
- Doris Kunstmann – Eva Braun
- Joss Ackland – General Wilhelm Burgdorf
- John Bennett – Joseph Goebbels
- John Barron – Dr. Stumpfegger
- Barbara Jefford – Magda Goebbels
- Valerie Gray – Helga Goebbels
- Ann Lynn – Traudl Junge
- Sheila Gish – Frau Christian
- Julian Glover – Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
- Michael Goodliffe – General Helmut Weidling
- Mark Kingston – Martin Bormann
- Timothy West – Professor Karl Gebhardt
- Andrew Sachs – Walter Wagner
- Philip Stone – Colonel General Alfred Jodl
- Angela Pleasence - Traudel
Home media
The film was released on DVD on 3 June 2008,[5] and was released on Blu-ray in September 2015.[6]
See also
- The Last Ten Days (1955), a film
- The Death of Adolf Hitler (Sunday Night Theatre episode) (1973), a British television film
- The Bunker (1981), a CBS television film
- Downfall (2004), a film
References
- ^ "Hitler: The Last Ten Days [Gli ultimi dieci giorni di Hitler]". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ^ a b "HITLER – THE LAST 10 DAYS (A)". British Board of Film Classification. 16 April 1973. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1973", Variety, 9 January 1974 p 19
- ^ Boldt, Gerhard (1973). Hitler's last days: An eyewitness account. Translated by Bance, Sandra (Hardcover, First Translated ed.). Arthur Baker. ISBN 978-0-213-16429-4.
- ^ Hitler: The Last Ten Days (DVD ed.). 3 June 2008.
- ^ "Hitler: The Last Ten Days Blu-ray".
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