Director Oliver Hirschbiegel remembers seeing Bruno Ganz transform into Adolf Hitler for the first time. Hirschbiegel was casting for Der Untergang – aka Downfall – the controversial 2004 film about ...

Early word on the German film “Downfall” was that it “humanized” Adolf Hitler, and thus had caused some controversy in Europe. This turns out to be not entirely the case. “Downfall” does present ...

Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor whose work ranged from playing an angel in Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire” to an on-the-edge-of-defeat Adolf Hitler in the much-memed “Downfall,” has died at age 77.He died ...

Quite a few people are outraged by the recent takedown of those YouTube videos that show Hitler launching into a tirade on just about every subject — from Michael Jackson's death to Sarah Palin to the ...

The impulsiveness and grandiosity, the bullying and vulgarity, were obvious from the beginning; if anything, they accounted for Adolf Hitler’s anti-establishment appeal. For Germany’s unpopular ...

There was a while there — oh, 2009 or so — when you could barely go a day without someone posting a new parody of the scene in Downfall when Adolf Hitler learns he’s lost the war. If you missed that ...

Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor best known for dramatizing Adolf Hitler’s final days in 2004’s “Downfall,” has died. He was 77. Ganz died at his home in Zurich on Friday, his representatives told media ...

Oliver Hirschbiegel's new film, which has its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, is about would-be Hitler assassin Georg Elser. By Scott Roxborough After the Oscar-nominated Downfall, about ...

In 2012, Marywood University professor Frederick Fagal joined a legion of internet users who posted parody videos inspired by a scene in the 2004 film "Downfall" where Hitler yells furiously upon ...