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Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer; ; pronounced [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ( listen); March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for crimes of the Nazi regime. His level of involvement in the persecution of the Jews and his level of knowledge of the Holocaust remain matters of dispute.
Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931, launching him on a political and governmental career which lasted fourteen years. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler commanded him to design and construct a number of structures, including the Reich Chancellery and the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg where Party rallies were held. Speer also made plans to reconstruct Berlin on a grand scale, with huge buildings, wide boulevards, and a reorganized transportation system.
Actors: Raghuvir Yadav (actor), Neha Dhupia (actress), Sanjoy Chowdhury (composer), Nabeel Abbas (miscellaneous crew), Deepshika (actress), Nassar Abdulla (actor), Aman Verma (actor), Imtiaz Ali (miscellaneous crew), Rutvik Oza (writer), Neeraj Gupta (miscellaneous crew), Hemant (actor), Avijit Dutt (actor), Nikita Anand (actress), Shree Narayan Singh (editor), Vikrant (actor),
Plot: Chancellor Adolf Hitler assists Azad Hind Fauj, led by Subhas Chandra Bose, which include a group of Indians who are frustrated with the Gandhian manner of non-violence to compel the oppressive British to quit their country. Punjab-based Balbir Singh is one such member of the Fauj, who has left his wife, Amrita, and son, Veer, behind. Ironically, Amrita is a follower of Mohandas Gandhi, and patiently awaits her husband's return home. Mohandas writes to Adolf, addressing him as 'dear friend', imploring him to end the violence. The allies, which include America, Russia, Britain and France close in on the Germans, while Adolf, a little perturbed by defectors, but still in company of many loyal supporters, is determined to continue, and even makes preparations to wed his mistress of 12 years, Eva Braun. Meanwhile Balbir and the rest of the Fauj must risk their lives through treacherous territory, allied soldiers, and quite surprisingly - they themselves - when they end up bickering and fighting with each other.
Genres: Drama, History, War,Actors: Valentin Ganev (actor), Julie Gayet (actress), Elina Löwensohn (actress), Serge Hazanavicius (actor), Patrick Raynal (actor), Nikolai Urumov (actor), Michel Jonasz (actor), Harry Anichkin (actor), Vincent Meslet (miscellaneous crew), Yavor Vesselinov (actor), Milena Mihaylova (miscellaneous crew), Marie Dupuy D'Angeac (miscellaneous crew), Vasil Banov (actor), Patrick Sandrin (producer), Jean-Luc Michaux (producer),
Genres: ,Actors: David Schofield (actor), Thomas Kretschmann (actor), Bill Nighy (actor), Kevin McNally (actor), Eddie Izzard (actor), Ian McNeice (actor), Bernard Hill (actor), Tom Hollander (actor), Kenneth Branagh (actor), Waldemar Kobus (actor), Kenneth Cranham (actor), Tom Cruise (actor), Christian Berkel (actor), Terence Stamp (actor), Matthias Schweighöfer (actor),
Plot: In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convinced he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan. To do so, he arranges for the internal emergency measure, Operation: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his fellows to seize control of Berlin after the assassination of the Fuhrer. However, even as the plan is put into action, a combination of bad luck and human failings conspire on their own to create a tragedy that would prolong the greater one gripping Europe.
Keywords: 1940s, adjutant, afrika-corps, air-raid, air-raid-shelter, air-raid-siren, airplane, amputee, armored-vehicle, arrestActors: Michael Kind (actor), Karl Kranzkowski (actor), Rolf Kanies (actor), Matthias Habich (actor), Michael Kind (actor), Gerald Alexander Held (actor), Dietrich Hollinderbäumer (actor), André Hennicke (actor), Michael Brandner (actor), Heino Ferch (actor), Christian Berkel (actor), Bruno Ganz (actor), Mathias Gnädinger (actor), Fabian Busch (actor), Thomas Kretschmann (actor),
Plot: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Keywords: 1940s, 1945, accordion, acropolis, adjutant, air-raid, airplane, allegiance, allied-forces, anti-semitismActors: Alain Goulem (actor), Rudolf Hess (actor), Gabriel Gascon (actor), Steve Adams (actor), Frank Fontaine (actor), Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), James Bradford (actor), Len Cariou (actor), Raymond Cloutier (actor), Joe Cobden (actor), Colm Feore (actor), Roger Dunn (actor), Matt Craven (actor), Larry Day (actor), Christopher Heyerdahl (actor),
Plot: Following the defeat of Germany in WWII, the Allies determine that there must be an accounting of German war crimes. Twenty-four Nazis, representative of all sections of military and civilian life are chosen to stand trial for the crimes of conspiracy to commit aggression, commission of aggression, crimes during war and crimes against humanity. The preparations for the trial, the trial itself and its aftermath are shown through the eyes of Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson and through the eyes of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, the ranking Nazi defendant.
Keywords: army, based-on-book, city-name-in-title, courtroom, execution, genocide, guard, holocaust, jail, judgeActors: Alexander O'Neal (producer), Ivan Marevich (actor), Christopher Bowen (actor), Sacha Puttnam (composer), David Gwillim (actor), Luke Watson (writer), Luke Watson (director), Malachi Smyth (writer), Christopher Wooley (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Hanns Zischler (actor), Hans Teuscher (actor), Gerry Wolff (actor), Udo Samel (actor), Jürgen Hentsch (actor), Götz Schubert (actor), Ulrich Mühe (actor), Fred Düren (actor), Rolf Hoppe (actor), Hans Peter Hallwachs (actor), Christian Doermer (actor), Hans Korte (actor), Walter Kreye (actor), Frank Beyer (director), Günther Fischer (composer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Derek Jacobi (actor), Leon Lissek (actor), Bernard Archard (actor), Herb Andress (actor), Carl Duering (actor), Heiner Lauterbach (actor), Michael Gahr (actor), John Gielgud (actor), Michael Gough (actor), Sky du Mont (actor), Rutger Hauer (actor), Ian Holm (actor), Stephen Collins (actor), Trevor Howard (actor), Hans Meyer (actor),
Plot: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, based-on-autobiography, based-on-novel, germany, hitler, nazi, number-in-title, third-reich, world-war-twoActors: Robert Pugh (actor), Michael Sheard (actor), James Naughton (actor), Michael Kitchen (actor), Yves Brainville (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor), Edward Hardwicke (actor), Anthony Hopkins (actor), Erick Desmarestz (actor), Martin Jarvis (actor), Julian Fellowes (actor), Patrick Floersheim (actor), Georges Corraface (actor), Piper Laurie (actress), Susan Blakely (actress),
Plot: In 1945, The Third Reich is in its death throes with the Allies relentlessly attacking the capital city of Berlin. Its Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, retreats into his fortified bunker in Berlin with his senior staff. There, gripped with both delusions of grandeur and despair, Hitler commands a hopeless last stand with resources existing largely in his own mind. While resisting the pleas of rational minions like Albert Speer, basic reality finally comes unavoidable. With that, Hitler and his fanatical fellows prepare for their own end even as their grandiose dreams are becoming a smoking ruin above.
Keywords: 1940s, anger, anti-semitism, based-on-book, berlin-germany, betrayal, bunker, cyanide, cyanide-capsule, dead-childrenActors: Ernst Waldbrunn (actor), Herbert Taschner (editor), Erwin Halletz (composer), Erik Frey (actor), Guido Wieland (actor), Georg Wilhelm Pabst (director), Ernst Pröckl (actor), Kurt Jaggberg (actor), Michael Janisch (actor), Hermann Erhardt (actor), John Van Dreelen (actor), Raoul Retzer (actor), Otto Schmöle (actor), Eduard Köck (actor), Carl Szokoll (producer),
Genres: Drama, History, War,We have faced despair
And found a river there
We have faced despair
And found a river there
We have sucked the fruit of disease
And found that it tasted sweet
Like meat gone bad
Sleep warmly under columns of light
Sleep warmly under columns of light
Sleep warmly under columns of light
Sleep with the fishes tonight
All alone in this recluse car
Became afraid of what we are
And what we might not be
In the land of the free
Land of the free
Land of the free
Land of the free
Land of the free
Smell the ripe overripe budding America
A sweetfaced straightlaced pornographic actress
That's her draw
No one can believe she'd appear in this smut
Her face smiling perfect through innocent teeth
Unaware of the debauchery beneath
Smiling innocent through perfect teeth
Unaware of the wolves running
Wild in her streets
In the land of the free
Land of the free
Land of the free
Land of the free
Get 'em up get 'em
Down on their knees
All praise to Allah
Who provides what we need
A Swiss precision suicide machine
Jesus Christ
Soul on ice
Sleep with the mother fuckin'