Downfall - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Downfall"
Der Untergang (2004)
Timing:
2:35 (155 min)
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Executive Producer
Christine Rothe
Executive Producer
Casting
An Dorthe Braker
Casting
Editor
Hans Funck
Editor
Art Direction
Elena Zhukova
Art Direction
Costume Design
Claudia Bobsin
Costume Design
Stunts
Sergey Golovkin
Stunts
Production Design
Bernd Lepel
Production Design
Stunt Coordinator
Oleg Korytin
Stunt Coordinator
Makeup Artist
Waldemar Pokromski
Makeup Artist
Margrit Neufink
Makeup Artist
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Abi Schneider
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Original Music Composer
Stephan Zacharias
Original Music Composer
Co-Producer
Doris J. Heinze
Co-Producer
Wolf-Dietrich Brücker
Co-Producer
Jörn Klamroth
Co-Producer
Director of Photography
Rainer Klausmann
Director of Photography
Steadicam Operator
Tilman Büttner
Steadicam Operator
Sebastian Meuschel
Steadicam Operator
Marcus Pohlus
Steadicam Operator
Costume Supervisor
Natalya Zamakhina
Costume Supervisor
Sound Effects Editor
Lisa Geffcken-Reinhard
Sound Effects Editor
Assistant Art Director
Aleksey Filatov
Assistant Art Director
Sergey Fukalov
Assistant Art Director
Property Master
Irina Melnikova
Property Master
Ekaterina Omakhanova
Property Master
Galina Zaigraeva
Property Master
Visual Effects Supervisor
Thomas Zauner
Visual Effects Supervisor
Special Effects Coordinator
Natasha Grachova
Special Effects Coordinator
Still Photographer
Jürgen Olczyk
Still Photographer
Visual Effects Producer
Stefanie Stalf
Visual Effects Producer
Thanks
Screenplay
Sound Designer
Nico Krebs
Sound Designer
Dialogue Editor
Fabian Schmidt
Dialogue Editor
Lighting Technician
Dirk Eichler
Lighting Technician
Location Manager
Yakov Gordin
Location Manager
Svetlana Lukash
Location Manager
Vladimir Plyatskovsky
Location Manager
Oksana Rusalinova
Location Manager
Maxim Volodin
Location Manager
Gaffer
Konstantin Kostin
Gaffer
Assistant Director
Bohdan Graczyk
Assistant Director
Hanuš Polak jr.
Assistant Director
First Assistant Camera
Carol Burandt von Kameke
First Assistant Camera
Other
Post Production Supervisor
Christine Jahn
Post Production Supervisor
Publicist
Mila Koudriashova
Publicist
Bettina Bartl
Publicist
Kerstin Böck
Publicist
Translator
Nonna Velikaya
Translator
Dolby Consultant
Norbert Zich
Dolby Consultant
Foley
Carsten Richter
Foley
Philipp Sellier
Foley
Jörn Poetzl
Foley
Compositing Artist
Alessandro Cioffi
Compositing Artist
Michael Ralla
Compositing Artist
Author
Joachim Fest
Author
Melissa Müller
Author
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on Joachim Fest's book "The Fall: Hitler and the Collapse of the Third Reich" (Der Untergang. Hitler und das Ende des Dritten Reiches, 2002).
- Filming took place in St. Petersburg with the participation of Lenfilm studio. This is explained by the fact that filming is cheaper in Russia than in Europe, and there are many houses from the early 20th century remaining.
- Bruno Ganz initially refused the role of Adolf Hitler for quite a long time, but changed his mind after watching the 1955 film "The Last Act", deciding that sufficient depth could be brought to this image as well.
- The real Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary whose memoirs were documented by writer Melissa Müller, participated in the film. Traudl passed away at the age of 81, just hours before the film's premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
- Bruno Ganz practiced pronouncing Adolf Hitler's unusual accent with the help of a young actor specifically invited from the same region Hitler was born in.
- To better prepare for his role, Bruno Ganz spent some time in a Swiss hospital observing patients with Parkinson's disease.
- Of the 37 historical figures who became characters in the film, only one was still alive at the time of the premiere: Rochus Misch, who served as a courier, bodyguard, and telephone operator for Adolf Hitler from 1940 to 1945. As of September 2008, at the age of 91 (born July 29, 1917), he and courier Armin Lehmann (born May 23, 1928) were among the last two surviving residents of Hitler's bunker.
- Many of Adolf Hitler's phrases in the film are accurate, however, they were spoken during an earlier period.
- In one of the film's scenes, it can be noticed that Magda Goebbels is writing a letter to her son from her first marriage, Harald Quandt, and a photograph of him is in front of her. He was a Luftwaffe pilot and the only one of Magda Goebbels' children to survive the war. In 1944, he was wounded in Italy and captured by Allied forces; in 1947, he was released, and in 1967, he died in a plane crash at the age of 46.
- The button that Hitler removes from his jacket and gives to Magda Goebbels is a gold badge of the Nazi Party, awarded to its high-ranking members who had been continuously registered in it since 1925. Hitler awarded badge number 1 to himself.
- The portrait that Hitler gazes at for a long time in one of the scenes belongs to the German Emperor Frederick the Great.
- One of the scenes in the film, in which Hitler launches into a furious tirade about the war being lost, has become the basis for many viral videos. Many of these videos retain the original lines but add new subtitles to make it appear as though the Führer in the film is reacting to different events in the modern world: in politics, sports, or science. The popularity of these parodies led Constantin Film to attempt a mass removal of the parodies from various video hosting sites in April 2010. Moreover, in 2012, one of the scenes from the science fiction comedy 'Iron Sky' (2012) almost exactly reproduces the scene with the Führer as yet another parody.
- Bruno Ganz initially refused the role of Adolf Hitler for quite some time, but changed his mind after watching the 1955 film 'The Last Act', deciding that sufficient depth could be brought to this image as well.
- One of the scenes in the film, in which Hitler launches into a furious tirade about the war being lost, became the basis for many viral videos. In many of these videos, the original lines are preserved, but new subtitles are added to make it appear as if the Führer in the film is reacting to different events in the modern world: in politics, sports, or science. The popularity of these parodies led Constantin Film to attempt to mass-remove the parodies from various video hosting sites in April 2010. Moreover, in 2012, one scene from the science fiction comedy 'Iron Sky' (2012) almost exactly replicates the scene with the Führer, as another parody.
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