Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 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, 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
The film opens with Hitler's 56th birthday, on 20 April 1945, and ends 10 days later with his suicide, on 30 April.
Cast
Alec Guinness – Adolf Hitler
Simon Ward – Hauptmann Hoffmann
Adolfo Celi – General Hans Krebs
Diane Cilento – Hanna Reitsch
Gabriele Ferzetti – Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Eric Porter – General 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
Ann Lynn – Traudl Junge
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
Philip Stone – Colonel General Alfred Jodl
Angela Pleasence - Traudel
Home media
The film was released on DVD on 3 June 2008, and was released on Blu-ray in September 2015.
See also
The Last Ten Days (1955), a film
The Death of Adolf Hitler (Sunday Night Theatre episode) (1973), a British television film The Bunker (1981), a CBS television film Downfall (2004), a film