Hitler: The Last Ten Days
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Ennio De Concini |
| Produced by | Wolfgang Reinhardt |
| Written by | Gerhard Boldt Ennio De Concini Maria Pia Fusco Ivan Moffat Wolfgang Reinhardt |
| Starring | Alec Guinness Simon Ward Adolfo Celi Diane Cilento Gabriele Ferzetti |
| Music by | Mischa Spoliansky |
| Cinematography | Ennio Guarnieri |
| Edited by | Kevin Connor |
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Tomorrow Entertainment
West Film |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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105 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom Italy |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2,250,000 (US/Canada rentals)[2] |
Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 British-Italian biographical drama film depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's suicide. The film stars Alec Guinness and Simon Ward, and features an introduction presented by Alistair Cooke; the original music score was composed by Mischa Spoliansky. The film is based on the book Hitler's Last Days: An Eye-Witness Account (first translated in English in 1973) by Gerhard Boldt,[3] an officer in the German Army who survived the Führerbunker. Location shooting for the film included the De Laurentiis Studios in Rome and parts of England.
Plot[edit]
The film opens with Hitler's 56th birthday, on 20 April 1945, and ends 10 days later with his suicide, on 30 April.
Cast[edit]
- Alec Guinness - Adolf Hitler
- Simon Ward - Capt. Hoffman
- Adolfo Celi - General Hans Krebs
- Diane Cilento - Hanna Reitsch
- Gabriele Ferzetti - Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
- Eric Porter - Gen. von Greim
- Doris Kunstmann - Eva Braun
- Joss Ackland - General Wilhelm Burgdorf
- John Bennett - Joseph Goebbels
- John Barron - Dr. Stumpfegger
- Barbara Jefford - Magda Goebbels
- Valerie Gray - Helga Goebbels
- Angela Pleasance - Trude
- Sheila Gish - Frau Christian
- Julian Glover - Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
- Michael Goodliffe - General Helmut Weidling
- Mark Kingston - Martin Bormann
- Timothy West - Professor Karl Gebhardt
- Andrew Sachs - Walter Wagner
Availability[edit]
A DVD of this film was released on 3 June 2008.[4]
See also[edit]
- The Last Ten Days (1955), a film
- The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973), a British television film
- The Bunker (1981), a CBS television film
- Downfall (2004), a film
References[edit]
- ^ "HITLER - THE LAST 10 DAYS (A)". British Board of Film Classification. 1973-04-16. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1973", Variety, 9 January 1974 p 19
- ^ Boldt, Gerhard & Bance, Sandra (Translator) (1973). Hitler's last days: An eye-witness account (Hardcover, First Translated ed.). Arthur Baker. ISBN 978-0213164294.
- ^ Hitler: The Last Ten Days (DVD ed.). June 3, 2008.
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Categories:
- 1973 films
- English-language films
- 1970s drama films
- 1970s biographical films
- 1970s historical films
- British films
- British biographical films
- British drama films
- British historical films
- Italian films
- Italian biographical films
- Italian drama films
- Biographical films about Adolf Hitler
- Films about the Battle of Berlin
- Paramount Pictures films
- Films shot in England
- Films shot in Italy
