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Ulrich Matthes (born 9 May 1959) is a German actor. He is best known for having played Joseph Goebbels in the 2004 film Downfall.
Feb 25, 2005 · And he and Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes) refuses to worry about the fate of the country’s civilians. “They gave us the mandate,” Goebbels says dismissively, sounding...
May 27, 2005 · Tall, hollow-cheeked and unnervingly thin, the German actor Ulrich Matthes is well suited to playing men living at moral extremes.
- Is Munich: The Edge of War Based on A True Story?
- Were Hugh Legat & Paul Von Hartmann Real people?
- What Really Happened at The 1938 Munich Conference
- The 1938 Plot to Remove Hitler from Power
- How Accurate Munich: The Edge of War's Real Life Characters Are
The entire backdrop of a pre-war Europe, Hitler's aggression, and a Prime Minister suing for peace are all entirely accurate, real-world events that form the crux of Munich: The Edge of War's narrative. In particular, Munich: The Edge of War acts as a revisionist re-telling of the events of the Munich Conference, in which the French and British del...
A significant chunk of Munich: The Edge of War's story details Legat and Hartmann's attempts to deliver Hitler's explosive European invasion plans into British hands. The pair are doggedly pursued by Sauer (favored Quentin Tarantino actor August Diehl), a mysterious and threatening SS member, with Hartmann and Legat's taut storyline making up the m...
While Munich: The Edge of War paints Neville Chamberlain in a heroic, revisionist light as a man prepared to sacrifice everything to spare Europe the horrors of war, the truth is far less kind to the former British Prime Minister. In reality, it was Chamberlain's insistence on his party policy of appeasement towards Hitler from which other politici...
In line with Munich: The Edge of War's events, there was indeed a real, even stranger conspiracy by anti-Nazi officers and officials in 1938 to dethrone Hitler, although the plan's contingencies were slightly different. In real life, Trott, in particular, had lain careful plans for a putsch in which Hitler would be murdered during an outbreak of vi...
Although Munich: Edge of War is a thoroughly enjoyable, well-acted piece of cinema, very few of its real-life characters are historically accurate. The aforementioned Chamberlain is portrayed by House of Gucci's Jeremy Irons as a genuinely selfless political hero when in actuality, many historians believe it was his hubris and weakness that gave Hi...
Downfall: Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes. Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
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Ulrich Matthes. Actor: Downfall. Ulrich Matthes was born on 9 May 1959 in West Berlin, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Downfall (2004), A Hidden Life (2019) and Feuerreiter (1998).
Feb 17, 2005 · Reviewed by Jamie Russell. Updated 30 March 2005. Contains strong violence, moderate sex references and surgical detail. Claustrophobic, tense and often riveting, Downfall traps us in Hitler's ...
