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Downfall(2004)
Released
2004 · FILM

Downfall

A naive young secretary thrust into Hitler’s bunker must navigate deadly power plays and the collapsing Third Reich while trying to survive the imminent fall of Berlin.

“April 1945, a nation awaits its... Downfall”

Directed by
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Written by
Bernd Eichinger, Joachim Fest
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
156 min
Language
DE
BiographyDramaHistory

Synopsis

In April 1945, Germany faces imminent defeat as the Soviet Army advances from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force pushes in from the west. In Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler declares that Germany will still achieve victory and instructs his generals and advisors to continue fighting to the last man. When the end arrives and Hitler is found dead by his own hand, the remnants of his military must find a way to end the Battle of Berlin and surrender their arms.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 29

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Hans FunckShot by Rainer KlausmannScored by Stephan ZachariasDesigned by Bernd Lepel

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$92.2M

Budget$16.0M
Worldwide gross$92.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $5.5M — 6% of worldwide · International: $86.7M (94%)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Downfallen
  • The Downfallen
  • El hundimientoes
  • La caídaes
  • La chutefr
  • La caduta - Gli ultimi giorni di Hitlerit

Companies

ProductionConstantin Film, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

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