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In the dead of a November night in 1942, a group of young women are escorted by SS officers through the woods to Wolf's Lair, Hitler's headquarters in Eastern Prussia. They are candidates for the post of personal secretary to the Fuehrer. Among them is 22-year-old Traudl Junge, a fresh-faced girl from Munich. Traudl is chosen for the job and she is overcome with joy at the thought of serving beside... See Full Description
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Art/Foreign, Drama, Adaptation and Biopic |
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| Running Time: |
2 hrs. 28 min. |
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| Release Date: |
February 18th, 2005 (limited) |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for strong violence, disturbing images and some nudity. |
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| Distributors: |
Newmarket Films
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$5,501,940 |
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| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
B+
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filmcritic.com, Nicholas Schager
"...one must wonder if this well-intentioned enterprise...doesn't sabotage its own portrait of the appalling empire's collapse." more...
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C+ |
New York Post, Lou Lumenick
"It's the well-wrought details that explain, perhaps better than any earlier film, how an entire country bought into Hitler's genocidal madness." more...
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A- |
New York Times, A.O. Scott
"...painstaking (and sometimes painful)..." more...
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A- |
ReelViews, James Berardinelli
"...one of the most finely-crafted World War II films ever made." more...
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A- |
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