The Bunker
by David Schafer
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Cliff Gorman, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Jordan, Susan BlakelyDirector: David Schafer
Brand: HBO Home Video
Producer: David Susskind
Producer: Diana Kerew
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
Published: 2006-05-01
DVD Release Date: 2009-10-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 91158
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product features:
- Anthony Hopkins gives an Emmy Award-winning performance as Adolf Hitler over the 105 days of his decline. With the Third Reich crumbling around him, Hitler rages as he faces the final hours before a choice must be made between suicide and surrender. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age: 026359115820 UPC: 026359115820 Manufacturer No: 91158
DVD Reviews of The Bunker
DVD Review: Second best "Bunker" film of the four...
Summary: 3 Stars
This was a 1981 CBS mini-series produced for network TV. The production quality is fair. The interior shots of the Bunker and Deiter's office have a "stage look" to them. I do like the fact that it shows the "Courtyard of Honor" and inside the "New Reich Chancellery." Events are shown from different points of view and film shifts back and forth between them. The main characters "followed around" are Hitler, Speer, Bormann, Eva Braun and the Goebbels family.
Sir Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Hitler is good overall, showing him in different moods and settings. There still is an element of theatrics at times, through scenes of yelling and gestures and movements for dramatic effect. These dramatic elements following what is generally shown in the footage of Hitler's exaggerated speaking style, and assumed to be his same mannerism in most all circumstances.
Hitler is generally shown to be a shell of his former self. One flashback that does work is the one that goes back to a pre-war birthday party given by Hitler for Albert Speer. It shows the energetic and charismatic Hitler to contrast his portrayal at the end. I applaud the fact that this film shows Dr. Morrell and provides scenes of his treatments/injections as to Hitler, which none of the other three bunker films do. The film does a good job of showing Bormann and his influence with Hitler and power he obtained.
However, the film is too sympathetic to Albert Speer. Some of the other actors' portrayals are unconvincing, such as those of General Keitel, General Jodl, and Goebbels. Further, several of the actors have English accents. Some of the real characters are left out of the film: such as General Krebs, General Burgdolf and General Weidling. Further, the scene showing the death of SS General Fegelein is not accurate but neither was the information provided in the book, "The Bunker."
The film is not as graphic or as realistic as "Downfall", but one has to remember that this film was done for American network TV in 1981. Of course, there are some inaccuracies and license that was taken to dramatize events and move the film along. In the end, it holds up well overall. I would rate the four bunker films:
1) Downfall
2) The Bunker
3) Hitler: The Last Ten Days
4) The Death of Adolf Hitler (the worst)
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