The Last Ten Days
1955 film
- Fritz Habeck
- Michael A. Musmanno
- Erich Maria Remarque
Oskar Werner
Lotte Tobisch
Production
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Cosmopol-Film
Columbia Film
Release date
- 14 April 1955 (1955-04-14)
Running time
- Austria
- West Germany
The Last Ten Days (German: Der letzte Akt) is a 1955 Austrian-German drama film directed by G. W. Pabst.[1] It was the first film in post-World War II Germany to feature the character of Adolf Hitler.[2] It follows him and others in what were the last days of the Third Reich.
It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna and at Baden bei Wien. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Pischinger, Wolf Witzemann and Werner Schlichting.
Cast
- Albin Skoda as Adolf Hitler
- Oskar Werner as Hauptmann Wüst
- Lotte Tobisch as Eva Braun
- Willy Krause as Joseph Goebbels
- Erich Stuckmann as Heinrich Himmler
- Erland Erlandsen as Albert Speer
- Curt Eilers as Martin Bormann
- Leopold Hainisch as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
- Otto Schmöle as Generaloberst Alfred Jodl
- Herbert Herbe as General Hans Krebs
- Hannes Schiel as SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Günsche
- Erik Frey as General Wilhelm Burgdorf
- Otto Wögerer as Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim
- Martha Wallner as Frieda, Kantineurin
See also
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days, a 1973 film
- The Death of Adolf Hitler 1968 book by Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski
- The Death of Adolf Hitler (Sunday Night Theatre episode) (1973), a British television film
- The Bunker (1981 film), a CBS television film
- Downfall (2004 film) German production
References
- ^ Crowther, Bosley (2012). "NY Times: The Last Ten Days". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
- ^ "Opening Pandora's Box". The Criterion Collection. 2006.
External links
- The Last Ten Days at IMDb
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Films directed by G. W. Pabst
- The Treasure (1923)
- Countess Donelli (1924)
- Joyless Street (1925)
- Secrets of a Soul (1926)
- One Does Not Play with Love (1926)
- The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
- The Devious Path (1928)
- Pandora's Box (1929)
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
- Westfront 1918 (1930)
- Scandalous Eva (1930)
- The Threepenny Opera (1931)
- Kameradschaft (1931)
- L'Atlantide (1932)
- Don Quixote (1933)
- High and Low (1933)
- A Modern Hero (1934)
- Street of Shadows (1937)
- The Shanghai Drama (1938)
- Girls in Distress (1939)
- The Comedians (1941)
- Paracelsus (1943)
- Der Fall Molander (1945)
- The Trial (1948)
- Mysterious Shadows (1949)
- Call Over the Air (1951)
- Voice of Silence (1953)
- Cose da pazzi (1954)
- The Confession of Ina Kahr (1954)
- The Last Ten Days (1955)
- Jackboot Mutiny (1955)
- Ballerina (1956)
- Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956)