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The Last Days of Hitler: raving and ravioli

Bruno Ganz gives an intriguing, creepily charismatic performance in this wartime drama that studies the mundane details of Hitler's final days

By A. O. Scott  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE

Some of these are well known, like Eva Braun (Juliane Kohler), the architect Albert Speer (Heino Ferch) and Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes), who died, along with his wife, Magda (Corinna Harfouch), and their six children, in the bunker with their leader. Other people who figure in this story -- which manages to be at once sprawling and claustrophobic -- are lesser officers in the SS, and members of Hitler's bodyguard and household staff, including Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara).

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