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The Bunker

Year:

1981

Duration:

Netherlands:150 min | USA:150 min | Spain:148 min (DVD edition) (2 parts)

Genres:

Drama | History | War

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

George Schaefer

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations

Details

Country: France

Release Date: 1981-01-27

Cast

Actor

Character

Richard Jordan

The Bunker

Anthony Hopkins

Adolf Hitler

Cliff Gorman

Joseph Goebbels

James Naughton

James O'Donnell

Michael Lonsdale

Martin Bormann

Martin Jarvis

Johannes Hentschel

Michael Kitchen

Rochus Misch

Andrew Ray

Otto Günsche

Piper Laurie

Magda Goebbels

Susan Blakely

Eva Braun

Robert Austin

Wagner

Geoffrey Bateman

Riebold

Graham Bishop

Helmut Goebbels

Kevin Bishop

Themmer

Nathalie Boulmer

Elga Goebbels

Yves Brainville

Gen. Hans Guderian

Jane Carr

Greta Hentschel

Georges Corraface

Gard SS #1 (as George Chorafas)

Michael Culver

Gen. Mohnke

Larry Dann

Moss

Erick Desmarestz

Gard SS #2

Max Douchin

Russian guard

Julian Fellowes

Col. von Below

Patrick Floersheim

Henderson

Peggy Frankston

Frau Speer

Steve Gadler

SS Soldier

Frank Gatliff

Dr. Schenck

Alison Glennie

Maria Misch

Robert Grange

Kempka

Daniel Groheim

Intendant

Sharon Gunning

Hilde Goebbels

Terrence Hardiman

Gen. Fegelein

Edward Hardwicke

Dieter Stahl

Karl Held

Hans Baur

Diana Higbee

Hedde Goebbels

Barry Jackson

Krebs

Anne Kazatzker

Mrs. Shroeder (as Anne Kasatzker)

Jeffrey Kime

Gard SS #3

David King

Hermann Goering

Lola Lecerf

Heidi Goebbels

Jean-Marie Lemaire

Sentinelle

Lisa Marlowe

Holde Goebbels

Sarah Marshall

Mrs. Junge

Gerald Morales

Goering's assistant

Jean-Claude Mounier

Young Hitlerien

John Paul

Gen. Wilhelm Keitel

Morris Perry

Dr. Haase

Robert Pugh

Turnow

Georges Roiron

Planton

Pam St. Clement

Cook

Paulita Sedgwick

Mrs. Wolf

John Sharp

Dr. Morell

Michael Sheard

Heinrich Himmler

Jimmy Shuman

Goebbels' assistant (as Jimmy Shumann)

Tony Steedman

Gen. Alfred Jodl

David Swift

Gen. Rattenhuber

Alison Svoboda

Mrs. Christian

Clément Thierry

Franz (as Clement Thierry)

Frédéric Witta

Kruger (as Frederic Witta)

S. Baste Morand

Young Hitlerian Singer (as Baste Morand S.)

C. Hue

Young Hitlerian Singer (as Hue C.)

M. Martinez

Young Hitlerian Singer (as Martinez M.)

L. Tucoulat

Young Hitlerian Singer (as Tucoulat L.)

Did you know?

Trivia

Reporters on the set said the sense of realism was so intense that at one point, when Anthony Hopkins entered the room to prepare for the next scene, actors portraying SS troops found themselves snapping to attention.

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At that point in his career, composer Brad Fiedel started to add more experimental sounds and techniques in his work. The Bunker was largely as an extended improvisation using sounds he created on then-new Prophet-10 synthesizer.

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Hopkins says that by portraying grotesque, crumbling and drugged monster like Hitler also turned him into something else. Hopkins even shouted at his then-wife and scared her during filming.

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Goofs

At the beginning of the movie, the narrator enters Hitler's flooded underground bunker shortly after the German surrender in 1945. He wears the uniform of a U.S. Army captain, and says he is on assignment from Newsweek magazine. However, civilian publishing companies did not employ military officers as correspondents.

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Bormann refers to Gen. Patton's 3rd Division as crossing the Rhein. Patton commanded Third Army, a fact which the German staff would be all too aware of.

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At the very end of the movie, the SS man/switchboard operator, Misch is seen talking to mechanic Hentschel while preparing to flee "The Bunker". The rifle Misch has shouldered is a Russian Mosin Nagant; he would have been carrying the German Mauser of which plenty would have been available with all the wounded in the proximity. I doubt if anyone would have taken a Nagant down into Hitler's Bunker.

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