The Last Act

The film takes up the last days of Adolf Hitler. Albin Skoda plays Hitler. The events take place inside the bunker. Outside, Berlin is encircled by enemy troops. Morale inside the bunker keeps sinking. In those conditions Hitler tries to hold the Third Reich together. His effort turns into panic. The account carries the pressure of a closed space. There is a fictional captain in the film as well. His name is Wüst and Oskar Werner plays him. Wüst is a disillusioned middleman. The film rests on Michael A. Musmanno’s book Ten Days to Die. Lotte Tobisch and Willy Krause also appear in G.W. Pabst’s Austrian and German coproduction of 1955, which runs a hundred and seven minutes.