o just an ordinary jew / ein ganz gewöhnlicher jude...
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o 1957 in Hamburg
o Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
o The Invasion (2007)
o Just an Ordinary Jew / Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Jude (2005)
o The Downfall / Der Untergang (2004)
o Mein letzter Film (2002)
o Das Experiment (2001)
o TV: Kommisar Rex, Tatort, Borgia Oliver Hirschbiegel
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o nominated for Oscar (best foreign film)
o European Film Award: Bruno Ganz, best actor
o Hitler’s bunker in last days of WWII; Red Army on the way
o based on work by historian Joachim Fest
o ... and memoirs by Traudl Junge, Albert Speer, Dr. Ernst-Günther Schenck
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o Hitler and other top Nazis portrayed as regular people
o Hollywood-style clear messages; not typical of German film (but more typical of recent film)
o controversy, broke taboos by humanizing Hitler
o part of a “third wave” of films about Nazis
o question of complicity front and center
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Traudl Junge
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o 1920 in Munich – 2002 in Munich
o Im toten Winkel (documentary film, 2002)
o Bis zur letzten Stunde (memoir, 2003)