Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 film depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's suicide. It stars Alec Guinness and Simon Ward. The original music score was composed by Mischa Spoliansky.
The movie opens with Hitler's 56th birthday on April 20, 1945, and ends 10 days later, with his suicide on April 30.
The motif of this movie is that everybody Hitler ever knew or cared for abandoned him, one by one, before his suicide. While this is bel...
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 film depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's suicide. It stars Alec Guinness and Simon Ward. The original music score was composed by Mischa Spoliansky.
The movie opens with Hitler's 56th birthday on April 20, 1945, and ends 10 days later, with his suicide on April 30.
The motif of this movie is that everybody Hitler ever knew or cared for abandoned him, one by one, before his suicide. While this is believed to be partially true, the movie takes liberties by having everyone, including Eva Braun, betray him.
Compared to reliable accounts of Hitler's final days, this movie is not considered accurate. More specifically:
A DVD of this film has been released on 3 June 2008.
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