Downfall (2004 film) Quotes

Downfall (2004 film) is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Downfall stopped airing in 1970.

It features Bernd Eichinger as producer, Stephan Zacharias in charge of musical score, and Rainer Klausmann as head of cinematography.

Downfall (2004 film) is recorded in German and originally aired in Germany. Each episode of Downfall (2004 film) is 155 minutes long. Downfall (2004 film) is distributed by Constantin Film (Germany, Austria).

The cast includes: Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler, Heino Ferch as Albert Speer, Alexandra Maria Lara as Traudl Junge, Dieter Mann as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel, Hans Steinberg as General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling, Ulrich Noethen as Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Götz Otto as Adjutant SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Günsche, Gerald Alexander Held as Walter Hewel, Corinna Harfouch as Magda Goebbels, Ulrich Matthes as Joseph Goebbels, Thomas Kretschmann as SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, Christian Hoening as SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann, Hans Steinberg as General der Infanterie Hans Krebs, Hans Steinberg as General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf, Bettina Redlich as Constanze Manziarly, Thomas Thieme as Martin Bormann, Christian Redl as Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, Hans Steinberg as General der Flieger Karl Koller, and Michael Brandner as Hans Fritzsche.

Downfall (2004 film) Quotes

Dieter Mann as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel

• (Dieter Mann) "Your report impressed the Führer. He has appointed you commander of Berlin's defenses."
• (Hans Steinberg) "I'd rather be shot than have this honor."

• (Dieter Mann) "The Führer has lost all sense of reality."
• (Christian Redl) "He moves divisions that only exist on his map. Steiner's scattered unit can hardly defend itself and yet, Steiner is ordered to attack. It's pure madness."
• (Thomas Kretschmann) "Then why don't you tell him yourself?"
• (Dieter Mann) "He won't listen to reason. You should know that."
• (Thomas Kretschmann) "Something must be done."
• (Dieter Mann) "Are you insane? We'll be thrown out like Rundstedt and Guderian."
• (Thomas Kretschmann) "Yes, and?"
• (Christian Redl) "We are soldiers. We pledged our allegiance to the Führer."
• (Thomas Kretschmann) "So that means we are no longer allowed to think?"
• (Hans Steinberg) "All this coming from you? An opportunist? A ruthless careerist?"
• (Thomas Kretschmann) "Pardon?"

Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler

• (Bruno Ganz) "In a war as such there are no civilians."

• (Bruno Ganz) "You see, gentlemen? I'll be proved right. Wenck will come."
• (Bruno Ganz) "Wenck will come."
• (Hans Steinberg) "I want to immediately know if it's possible for Wenck to attack or not."
• (Hans Steinberg) "It's unlikely that Wenck's small force can attack the Red Army --"
• (Ulrich Matthes) "How dare you say it's unlikely?"
• (Hans Steinberg) "Wenck has nothing to confront the Red Army."
• (Hans Steinberg) "Why don't you tell the Führer? Have you all gone crazy?"
• (Hans Steinberg) "The Führer knows it himself, but he will never surrender, and we won't either. I went through that before, and once is enough."
• (Hans Steinberg) "Come on, I have to get out of here."

• (Bruno Ganz) "My political statement. Since 1914, when I invested my modest strength in the First World War, which was forced upon the Reich, over 30 years have passed. In those 3 decades, all my thoughts, actions and my life were dictated by my love for and loyalty to the German people. Centuries will pass, but from the ruins of our cities and cultural monuments our hatred will be renewed for those who are responsible, the people to whom we owe all this: The international Jewry and its supporters."

• (Bruno Ganz) "Burgdorf, what's going on? Where's the firing coming from?"
• (Hans Steinberg) "First of all, Happy Birthday, my Führer. My Führer, the city of Berlin is under artillery fire; grenades have hit near the Brandenburg gate, Reichstag, and the Friedrichstrasse station."
• (Bruno Ganz) "Where is the firing coming from?"
• (Hans Steinberg) "My Führer, we don't know, but I'm talking with Koller."
• (Bruno Ganz) "Koller. Let me speak to Koller."
• (Bruno Ganz) "Koller. Do you know that Berlin is under artillery fire?"
• (Hans Steinberg) "No."
• (Bruno Ganz) "Can't you hear the shooting?"
• (Hans Steinberg) "No, I'm in Wildpark Werder."
• (Bruno Ganz) "The city is chaotic. The Russians have captured a railway bridge over the Oder."
• (Hans Steinberg) "The enemy has no railway artillery in the Oder."
• (Hans Steinberg) "It's not long-ranged artillery; the divisional headquarters of the Flak and Zoo-Bunker report that the shells are ten to twelve calibers. The Russians went into position in Marzahn."
• (Bruno Ganz) "That's only twelve miles from the city center. Are the Russians really this close? The Lufwaffe leadership must be hanged immediately."
• (Bruno Ganz) "This is outrageous. Outrageous. The Russians are twelve miles from the city center, and nobody told me anything. I had to ask."
• (Hans Steinberg) "My Führer, it's probably long-range artillery, after all. You mentioned a railway bridge over the Oder."
• (Bruno Ganz) "Nonsense."

• (Bruno Ganz) "Has he gone crazy?"

• (Bruno Ganz) "That was an order. Steiner's assault was an order. Who do you think you are to dare disobey an order I give? So this is what it has come to. The military has been lying to me. Everybody has been lying to me, even the SS. Our generals are just a bunch of contemptible, disloyal cowards -- Our generals are the scum of the German people. Not a shred of honour. They call themselves generals. Years at military academy just to learn how to hold a knife and fork. For years, the military has hindered my plans. They've put every kind of obstacle in my way. What I should have done -- was liquidate all the high-ranking officers, as Stalin did."

• (Bruno Ganz) "Traitors. I've been betrayed and deceived from the very beginning. What a monstrous betrayal of the German people, but all those traitors will pay. They'll pay with their own blood. They shall drown in their own blood."

Alexandra Maria Lara as Traudl Junge

• (Alexandra Maria Lara) "I've got the feeling that I should be angry with this child, this young and oblivious girl. Or that I'm not allowed to forgive her for not seeing the nature of that monster. That she didn't realise what she was doing. And mostly because I've gone so obliviously. Because I wasn't a fanatic Nazi. I could have said in Berlin, "No, I'm not doing that. I don't want to go the Führer's headquarters." But I didn't do that. I was too curious. I didn't realise that fate would lead me somewhere I didn't want to be. But still, I find it hard to forgive myself."

• (Alexandra Maria Lara) "All these horrors I've heard of during the Nurnberg process, these six million Jews, other thinking people or people of another race, who perished. That shocked me deeply. But I hadn't made the connection with my past. I assured myself with the thought of not being personally guilty. And that I didn't know anything about the enormous scale of it. But one day I walked by a memorial plate of Sophie Scholl in the Franz-Joseph-Strasse. I saw that she was about my age and she was executed in the same year I came to Hitler. And at that moment I actually realised that a young age isn't an excuse. And that it might have been possible to get to know things."

• (Alexandra Maria Lara) "Herr Speer. How did you get into Berlin?"
• (Heino Ferch) "It wasn't easy, but I must speak with the Führer."
• (Heinz Linge, Kammerdiener) "If I were you, I'd wait a bit."

Ulrich Matthes as Joseph Goebbels

• (Ulrich Matthes) "I won't use my final hours as Reich Chancellor to sign a statement of surrender."

• (Ulrich Matthes) "I feel no sympathy. I repeat, I feel no sympathy. The German people chose their fate. That may surprise some people. Don't fool yourself. We didn't force the German people. They gave us a mandate, and now their little throats are being cut."

• (Ulrich Matthes) "Surrender? Never. This is outrageous. I've conquered Berlin against the Reds several years ago, and will defend the city to the last breath against them. The few hours that I've yet to live as German Chancellor, I will not use them to put my signature on a document of surrender."
• (Hans Steinberg) "We must protect the civilian population."
• (Hans Steinberg) "The Führer's order is final."
• (Hans Steinberg) "No matter what happens, we will protect to the end."
• (Hans Steinberg) "We cannot give up."
• (Gerald Alexander Held) "We have to start negotiations."
• (Ulrich Matthes) "I repeat: I will never sign to a surrender."
• (Michael Brandner) "I need you to send a telegraph to Marshal Zhukov immediately."
• (Rochus Misch) "Marshal Zhukov?"
• (Hans Steinberg) "What's going on here?"
• (Michael Brandner) "This is madness. We have to give the city to the Russians."
• (Hans Steinberg) "Then I have to shoot you. The Führer commands to prohibit any surrender."

Bettina Redlich as Constanze Manziarly

• (Bettina Redlich) "I hate those two-faced sods who say 'Sieg Heil', but behind their backs say, 'Kiss my a -- aunt'."

Ulrich Noethen as Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler

• (Ulrich Noethen) "When I meet Eisenhower, should I give the Nazi salute, or shake his hand?"

Thomas Thieme as Martin Bormann

• (Thomas Thieme) "My Führer, following your decision to stay in Berlin, do I have your approval as Vice Chancellor to immediately take charge of the entire Reich with the necessary power and authority? If I receive no answer by 10 p.m., I will assume that you have been incapacitated. I will serve the well-being of our people and fatherland."
• (Thomas Thieme) "He's betraying Germany -- and you."
• (Gerald Alexander Held) "Göring's concern isn't unjustified. If our communication system breaks down, which could happen at any time, we'd be cut off from the world; we could no longer pass on orders."
• (Ulrich Matthes) "I see it differently. Göring wants to seize power. I never trusted that mob he gathered at Obersalzberg; it stinks of a coup."
• (Bruno Ganz) "That failure. That sponger -- A parvenu. A lazybones."
• (Bruno Ganz) "How dare he declare me unable to act? Tomorrow he might declare me dead."
• (Heino Ferch) "Hello, Frau Junge."
• (Alexandra Maria Lara) "Herr Speer. How did you get into Berlin?"
• (Heino Ferch) "It wasn't easy, but I must speak with the Führer."
• (Heinz Linge, Kammerdiener) "I'd wait here if I were you."
• (Bruno Ganz) "The Luftwaffe -- What did he do with it? That was reason enough to execute him. That morphine addict -- helped to corrupt this country. And now this --"
• (Bruno Ganz) "He betrayed me of all people. Me of all people."
• (Bruno Ganz) "I want Göring to be deprived of power and removed from office. If I don't survive the war, that man is to be executed at once."

• (Thomas Thieme) "Himmler is such a pompous clown."
• (Hans Steinberg) "Big shots. Big shots everywhere. It makes me sick."

Götz Otto as Adjutant SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Günsche

• (Götz Otto) "He is not in the bunker."
• (Bruno Ganz) "What do you mean you can't find Fegelein? Keep searching for him. I want to see Fegelein at once. If he goes AWOL, that's desertion. Treason. Bring me Fegelein."
• (Bruno Ganz) "Fegelein. Fegelein. Fegelein."

Heino Ferch as Albert Speer

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Gerald Alexander Held as Walter Hewel

• (Gerald Alexander Held) "Why do you want to live on?"
• (Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck) "And you? Why do you absolutely want to die?"
• (Gerald Alexander Held) "You see this?"
• (Gerald Alexander Held) "The Führer personally gave it to me."
• (Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck) "As last honor?"
• (Gerald Alexander Held) "-- maybe."

Hans Steinberg as General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf

• (Hans Steinberg) "I am to be shot."

• (Hans Steinberg) "My Führer, as a soldier I suggest we try to break through the encirclement. During the fight for Berlin we've already lost 15-20,000 of the younger officers."
• (Bruno Ganz) "But that's what young men are for."

• (Oberleutnant) "Orders, sir?"
• (Hans Steinberg) "I am to be shot."
• (Oberleutnant) "What? Why?"
• (Hans Steinberg) "They believe I moved my command post to the West, away from the enemy."
• (Oberleutnant) "Not a bad idea, General."

Thomas Kretschmann as SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein

• (Thomas Kretschmann) "Convince him that we need to leave Berlin, Eva."
• (Thomas Kretschmann) "-- Or come with me."
• (Thomas Kretschmann) "Eva. You're going to die."

Corinna Harfouch as Magda Goebbels

• (Corinna Harfouch) "Sleep tight, children."

• (Corinna Harfouch) "My Führer, I beg you to leave Berlin. My Führer, please. Don't leave us. What will become of us?"
• (Bruno Ganz) "Tomorrow millions of people will curse me, but fate has taken its course."

Christian Hoening as SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann

• (Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck) "I won't allow my staff to be evacuated."
• (Christian Hoening) "Is that so?"
• (Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck) "The food supply to Berlin will collapse."
• (Christian Hoening) "A good soldier will always find something to eat."
• (Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck) "Yes. And when the fighting starts, who will he take food from? Civilians. I won't allow it."
• (Christian Hoening) "It's the Führer's Orders."
• (Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck) "As Department Head, I answer to the SS and Reichsführer Himmler. But as a doctor, I answer to the Wehrmacht and we are still here. Please keep that in mind."
• (Christian Hoening) "The Professor can stay in Berlin. Please give him an authorized permit."

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