Downfall

Cast & Crew

Cast & Crew

Directed by

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Writing Credits

Bernd Eichinger
(written by)
Joachim Fest
(based on the book "Der Untergang: Hitler und das Ende des Dritten Reiches" by)
Traudl Junge
(based on the book "Bis zur letzten Stunde" by) and
Melissa Müller
(based on the book "Bis zur letzten Stunde" by)

Cast

Bruno Ganz
Adolf Hitler
Alexandra Maria Lara
Traudl Junge
Corinna Harfouch
Magda Goebbels
Ulrich Matthes
Joseph Goebbels
Juliane Köhler
Eva Braun
Heino Ferch
Albert Speer
Christian Berkel
Prof. Ernst-Günther Schenck
Matthias Habich
Prof. Werner Haase
Thomas Kretschmann
Hermann Fegelein
Michael Mendl
General Weidling
André Hennicke
General Mohnke
Ulrich Noethen
Heinrich Himmler
Birgit Minichmayr
Gerda Christian
Rolf Kanies
General Hans Krebs
Justus von Dohnányi
General Wilhelm Burgdorf
Dieter Mann
Feldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Christian Redl
General Alfred Jodl
Götz Otto
Otto Günsche
Thomas Limpinsel
Heinz Linge
Thomas Thieme
Martin Bormann
Alexander Held
Walter Hewel
Donevan Gunia
Peter Kranz
Bettina Redlich
Frl. Constanze Manziarly
Heinrich Schmieder
Rochus Misch
Anna Thalbach
Hanna Reitsch
Dietrich Hollinderbäumer
Ritter Robert von Greim
Ulrike Krumbiegel
Dorothee Kranz
Karl Kranzkowski
Wilhelm Kranz
Thorsten Krohn
Dr. Stumpfegger
Jürgen Tonkel
Erich Kempka
Devid Striesow
Feldwebel Tornow
Fabian Busch
Obersturmbannführer Stehr
Christian Hoening
Reichsarzt SS Grawitz
Aleksandr Slastin
General Tschuikow
Alina Sokar
Die Goebbels Kinder
Amelie Menges
Die Goebbels Kinder
Charlotte Stoiber
Die Goebbels Kinder
Gregory Borlein
Die Goebbels Kinder
Julia Bauer
Die Goebbels Kinder
Laura Borlein
Die Goebbels Kinder
Andrey Blagoslovenski
Soldat / Ruinenkeller
Dirk Borchardt
Panzerkommandant
Elizaveta Boyarskaya
Schwester Erna
Michael Brandner
H. Fritzsche
I. Bubenchikov
Schädle
Leopold von Buttlar
Sohn Grawitz
Martin Butzke
SS-Soldat 1
Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov
Soldat 2
Sergey Evseev
Adjutant 2 von General Mohnke
Mathias Gnädinger
Hermann Göring
Bohdan Graczyk
Oberst Clausen
Sergey Rublev
SS-Adjutant
Norbert Heckner
Standesbeamter Wagner
Enno Hesse
Oberleutnant
Evgeniy Ilovayskiy
Älterer Zivilist 1
Julia Jentsch
Hanna Potrowski
Oleg Khoroshilov
Henker
Michael Kind
SA-Mann / Ruinenkeller
Elisabeth von Koch
Margarete Lorenz
Tara Marie Linke
Hedwig Brandt
Michael Lippold
Junger Offizier 1
Konstantin Lukashov
Älterer Soldat
Stefan Mehren
Verwundeter Soldat
Ilya Mozgovoy
Soldat 1
Silke Nikowski
Frau Grawitz
Alexei Oleinikov
SS-Offizier Brauerei
Aleksandr Styopin
HJ Führer
Oleg Piminov
Adjutant von General Mohnke
Katerina Poladjan
Russische Arzthelferin
Oleg Popov
Adjutant von General Weidling
Silke Popp
Ursula Puttkamer
Vasiliy Reutov
Adjutant von General Krebs
Igor Romanov
SS-Offizier Högel
Tanja Schleiff
Russische Ärztin
Christian Schmidt
SS-Mann Greifkommando
August Schmölzer
Baur
Jurij Schrader
Dolmetscher
Boris Schwarzmann
Matwej Blanter
Mariya Semyonova
Rothaarige Frau
Igor Sergeev
Russischer Soldat
Valeri Slavinski
Mann
Valeriy Salomakhin
Älterer Zivilist 2
Hans H. Steinberg
General Koller
Klaus-Jürgen Steinmann
Offizier 1
Oliver Stritzel
Maschinist Hentschel
Veit Stübner
Obergruppenführer Tellermann
Mikhail Tryasorukov
Adjutant Müller
Vsevolod Tsurilo
Russischer Adjutant
Klaus B. Wolf
Junger Marinesoldat
Elena Dreyden
Inge Dombrowski
Tatyana Zhuravlyova
Alte Frau
Frank Brandes
Adjutant Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven
Tobias Christian Mayer
Betrunkener Soldat
Thomas Franke
Wachsoldat vor der Wolfsschanze
Traudl Junge
Self
Martin Kessler
Nazi Officer
Henning Peker
Wachsoldat vor der Wolfsschanze
Dieter Rupp
Mohnke's Adjutant im Bunker
Dmitriy Shcherbina
Sowjetischer Soldat

Produced by

Wolf-Dietrich Brücker
co-producer: WDR
Bernd Eichinger
producer (produced by)
Doris J. Heinze
co-producer: NDR
Jörn Klamroth
co-producer: Degeto Film
Christine Rothe
executive producer
Silvia Tollmann
line producer

Music by

Stephan Zacharias

Cinematography by

Rainer Klausmann
director of photography

Editing by

Hans Funck

Casting By

An Dorthe Braker

Production Design by

Bernd Lepel

Costume Design by

Claudia Bobsin

Makeup Department

Peter Bour
makeup artist: Berlin unit
Tamara Frid
makeup artist: St. Petersburg unit
Gabriele Hahn-Laue
makeup artist: Berlin unit (as Gaby Hahn-Laue)
Francis Jadoul
makeup artist: Munich unit
Anette Keiser
makeup artist: Munich unit
Lola Khourranova
assistant makeup artist: St. Petersburg unit (as Lola Khourramova) / makeup artist: Berlin unit
Tomasz Matraszek
makeup artist: St. Petersburg unit
Gerhard Nemetz
makeup artist: Munich unit
Eberhard Neufink
makeup artist: Berlin unit
Margrit Neufink
key makeup artist
Waldemar Pokromski
key makeup artist
Helmut Rühl
makeup artist: Berlin unit
Julia Sémerenko
assistant makeup artist: St. Petersburg unit (as Julia Semerenko)
Katya Zheleikina
assistant makeup artist: St. Petersburg unit

Production Management

Philipp Alzmann
unit manager: Munich unit
Dirk Gornickel
set production manager
Christine Jahn
post-production supervisor
Natalya Smirnova
production manager: St. Petersburg unit (as Natasha Smirnova)
Silvia Tollmann
unit production manager
Peter Ulbrich
unit manager: St. Petersburg unit

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Bohdan Graczyk
second assistant director: St. Petersburg (as Bogdan Graczyk)
Tobin Ober
third assistant director: St. Petersburg
Tatjana Pagels
second assistant director: Berlin
Hanus Polak Jr.
first assistant director

Art Department

Martin Baar
set dresser: Munich
Marcus Berndt
prop buyer
Valery Bokovenko
set construction: St. Petersburg / stand-by carpenter: St. Petersburg
Stefan Burischek
set dresser: Munich
Michael Däumler
set construction: Munich
Aleksey Filatov
assistant art director: St. Petersburg
Sergey Fukalov
assistant art director: St. Petersburg
Gregor Hees
assistant set decorator: St. Petersburg
Oliver Hoese
assistant production designer: Munich
Stefanie Hüther
assistant property master: Munich (as Stefanie Knobel)
Joachim Keppler
stand-by props
Gregor Mager
assistant set decorator: St. Petersburg
Irina Melnikova
property master: St. Petersburg
Ekaterina Omakhanova
property master: St. Petersburg (as Katya Omakhanova)
Aleksei Savvateyev
set dresser: St. Petersburg (as Alexei Savvateev)
Maythe Stavermann
art department trainee: Munich
Georgi Vasilevsky
assistant property master: St. Petersburg
Johannes Wild
prop buyer
Vladimir Yegorov
set dresser: St. Petersburg (as Vladimir Egorov)
Galina Zaigraeva
property master: St. Petersburg
Elena Zhukova
art director: St. Petersburg
Jan Hülpüsch
graphic artist: Schein Berlin (uncredited)
Daniel Porsdorf
graphic artist: Schein Berlin (uncredited)

Sound Department

Stefan Busch
supervising sound designer
Lisa Geffcken-Reinhard
sound effects editor (as Lisa Geffcken)
Frank Gorgas
boom operator
Johannes Gwisdek
sound intern: Munich / sound trainee: Munich
Michael Kranz
re-recording mixer
Nico Krebs
sound designer
Kai Medinger
adr mixer
Jörn Poetzl
foley artist (as Joern Poetzl)
Carsten Richter
foley artist
Nina Roll
dialog supervisor
Benjamin A. Rosenkind
assistant re-recording mixer
Fabian Schmidt
adr editor / dialogue editor
Abi Schneider
re-recording mixer
Philipp Sellier
foley mixer
Ernie Sheesley
dialogue editor: english version
Dominick Tavella
re-recording mixer: english version
Roland Winke
production sound mixer
Norbert Zich
stereo sound consultant: Dolby

Special Effects by

Michael Alekseev
special effects assistant: St. Petersburg unit
Daniel Alexandru
modeler: Germania, St. Petersburg unit
Karl-Heinz Bochnig
special effects technician: St. Petersburg
Natasha Grachova
special effects coordinator: St. Petersburg unit
Maurice Koester
special effects technician: St. Petersburg unit (as Maurice Köster)
Dirk Lange
special effects: Munich unit
Sergey Lisitsin
modeler: toy vehicles, St. Petersburg unit
Liviu Marcu
modeler: Germania, St. Petersburg unit (as Liviu Gheorge Marcu)
Dan Munteanu
modeler: Germania, St. Petersburg unit
Marcus Preussing
special effects technician: St. Petersburg unit (as Marcus Schmidt)
Bernd Rautenberg
special effects technician: St. Petersburg unit
Thomas Thiele
special effects technician: St. Petersburg unit
Aleksandr Yakovlev
pyrotechnic effects
Uli Nefzer
special effects supervisor (uncredited)

Visual Effects by

Alessandro Cioffi
compositing artist
Gabriel Dedic
digital color timer
Damian Doennig
digital effects artist
Moritz Eiche
digital compositor: CA Scanline Production GmbH
Michael Hirsch
digital effects artist
Jan Krupp
digital effects supervisor
Melissa Lippisch
digital cleanup
Tobias Ludwig
digital effects artist
Helene Marinoff
visual effects production manager: CA Scanline Production GmbH
Michael Ralla
compositing artist
Benjamin Roß
digital effects artist
Norbert Ruf
compositing artist
Alexander Seefelder
compositing artist
Stefanie Stalf
visual effects producer
Sebastian Stanek
digital effects artist
Dietrich Stoll
digital effects artist
Heiko Sülberg
digital effects artist
Stephan Trojansky
visual effects consultant
Zoltán von Gáti
digital effects artist
Ismat Zaidi
visual effects production manager: scan&record35
Thomas Zauner
visual effects supervisor
Martin Zwanzger
compositing artist
Michael Scheffler
systems admistrator: scan&record 35 GmbH (uncredited)

Stunts

Oleg Korytin
stunt coordinator: St. Petersburg unit
Sergey Golovkin
stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

Timo Andert
video operator: Munich
Kirill Azriel
lighting technician: St. Petersburg
Maxim Belousov
grip: St. Petersburg
Yannick Bonica
lighting technician: Berlin
Carol Burandt von Kameke
second assistant camera
Tilman Büttner
steadicam operator
Sven Ebenhardt
grip
Dirk Eichler
lighting technician: Berlin
Peter Fritscher
gaffer (as Peter Krammer)
Klaus Harnisch
best boy: St. Petersburg
Yuri Kachan
electrician: St. Petersburg / lighting technician: St. Petersburg
Konstantin Kostin
gaffer: St. Petersburg
Maike Maier
grip
Sebastian Meuschel
steadicam operator
Astrid Miegel
first assistant camera
Vladimir Mihaylov
lighting technician: St. Petersburg (as Vladimir Mikhailov)
Vladimir Mikhaylov
electrician: St. Petersburg
Jürgen Olczyk
still photographer
Dimitri Opekine
second assistant camera: St. Petersburg
Marcus Pohlus
steadicam operator
Christian Richter
best boy: Berlin
Ludwig Schmid
lighting: Munich
Dima Sniatovsky
grip: St. Petersburg
Aleksey Solodov
third assistant camera: St. Petersburg (as Alexei Solodov)
Jürgen Thiele
lighting: Munich
Sebastian Utz
assistant grip: Munich
Isabelle Zampiero
video operator: St. Petersburg
Nicolas Hüther
2.unit cinematography (uncredited)

Casting Department

Uwe Bünker
casting: children
Tatyana Chistova
casting assistant: St. Petersburg
Hellmut Fulss
extras casting: Munich (as Helmut Fulss)
Yuri Kazakov
casting assistant: St. Petersburg
Victoria Ogneva
assistant extras casting: St. Petersburg
Mechthild Olliges
extras casting: Berlin
Alla Petelina
assistant extras casting: St. Petersburg

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Annette Bätz
assistant costume designer
Natasha Ivanova
assistant costume designer: St. Petersburg
Maxim Kardashov
assistant costume designer: St. Petersburg
Reinhard Klebeck
assistant costume designer: Munich
Wolfgang Klebeck
wardrober: Munich
Larisa Komchenko
wardrober: St. Petersburg (as Larisa Khomchenko)
Heinrich Krebs
wardrober: Munich
Sergey Lisitsin
car dresser: St. Petersburg
Grigori Minaev
assistant costume designer: St. Petersburg (as Gregorii Minaev)
Andrew Mollo
consultant: military wardrobe
Tatyana Pliatskovskaya
wardrober: St. Petersburg
Astrid Pohland
wardrober: Berlin
Svetlana Stachenko
assistant costume designer: St. Petersburg (as Svetlana Statsenko)
Claudia Stadler
wardrober: Munich
Natalya Zamakhina
costume supervisor: St. Petersburg (as Natalia Zamakhina)

Editorial Department

Lee Bennett
digital colorist
Gary Burritt
negative cutting: english version
Andschana Eschenbach
assistant editor
Biserka Kirr
negative cutter
Dennis McNeill
color timer: english version (as Denny McNeill)
Traudl Nicholson
color timer
Renate Siegl
negative cutter
Sandra Stier
negative cutter
Andrea Voggenauer
negative cutter
Alexander Mair
color correction (uncredited)

Location Management

Yakov Gordin
location manager: St. Petersburg unit
Svetlana Lukash
location manager: St. Petersburg unit
Vladislav Mayevsky
location manager: St. Petersburg unit
Vladimir Plyatskovsky
location manager: St. Petersburg unit (as Vladimir Plyatskovski)
Oksana Rusalinova
location manager: St. Petersburg unit
Maxim Volodin
location manager: St. Petersburg unit
Aleksei Zveryov
location manager: St. Petersburg unit (as Alexey Zverev)

Music Department

Karsten Baumgarten
music scoring mixer
Georg Naschke
music coordinator (as George Naschke)
Stefan Pintev
concert master / orchestra leader
Stephan Zacharias
music arranger / music producer

Script and Continuity Department

Michaela Hiefler
continuity

Transportation Department

Tobias Art
production driver: Munich
Stefan Backes
production driver: Munich
Johannes Gwisdek
production driver: Berlin
Philipp Krause
production driver: Munich
Bernd Oberueber
production driver driver: Munich
Dirk Schumann
production driver: Berlin
Stefan Schumann
production driver: Berlin
Nina Ruhkala
driver: trailer, St. Petersburg (uncredited)

Additional Crew

Olga Alymova
production coordinator: St. Petersburg unit
Dietmar Arnold
consultant: bunker site
Bettina Bartl
release publicist
Yana Bezhanskaya
producer: St. Petersburg
Kerstin Biermann
assistant: Christine Rothe
Kerstin Böck
release publicist
Anke Diez
production accountant
Bernd Eichinger
presenter
Thomas Peter Friedl
marketing (as Thomas Friedl)
Sasha Golubtsova
additional caterer: St. Petersburg
Anna Gordeichik
interpreter: St. Petersburg / translator: St. Petersburg
Christian Hartmann
military consultant (as Dr. Christian Hartmann)
Ilona Hüttersen
production press (as Illona Hüttersen)
Madelaine Jakwert
production trainee: Munich
Sasha Kiriluk
interpreter: St. Petersburg / translator: St. Petersburg (as Sasha Kirluk)
Torsten Koch
assistant: distribution/marketing conception
Mila Koudriashova
publicist: Globus Film, St. Petersburg
Elena Kozyrenko
production assistant: St. Petersburg
Veronika Leidescher
assistant: distribution/marketing conception
Lutz Lemke
title designer
Anna Litvinenko
translator: St. Petersburg
Peter Mayerhofer
weapons master: Munich
Svetlana Miasoedova
assistant caterer: St. Petersburg
Jürgen Müller
consultant: concrete shelter
Margot Neschitsch
assistant: distribution/marketing conception
Elena Ogneva
accountant: St. Petersburg / payroll: St. Petersburg (as Elena Ognieva)
Olga Pankratova
assistant caterer: St. Petersburg
Cornelia Popp
production secretary: Munich
Gottfried Reisecker
consultant: film laboratory
Daniel Rosness
production secretary: Munich (as Danny Rosness)
Anna Ruchii
translator: St. Petersburg
Svetlana Sapunova
accountant: St. Petersburg / payroll: St. Petersburg
Alisa Schavinskaya
translator: St. Petersburg
Jurij Schrader
assistant: Bernd Lepel, St. Petersburg
Tanja Schwoch
assistant: Bernd Eichinger
Valentina Selezniova
additional caterer: St. Petersburg / additional catering: St. Petersburg (as Valentina Selezinova)
Dimitri Simanovskiy
translator: St. Petersburg
Kira Sinelshikova
production assistant: St. Petersburg (as Kira Sinelschikova)
Galina Smirnova
douane coordinator: St. Petersburg
Dorothee Specht
production coordinator
Nonna Velikaya
translator: St. Petersburg
Laura Vergelli
Italian translation
Mirjam Weber
production assistant: St. Petersburg
Fabian Wolfart
on-line promotion
Zinaida Zhdanova
production assistant: St. Petersburg (as Zidana Zhdanova) / production assistant: St. Petersburg
Daniel Rosness
production coordinator (uncredited)

Thanks

Josef Brandmaier
thanks
Ben Brumfield
thanks
Manfred Burger
thanks
Ulrich Deppendorf
thanks
Joseph Dietl
thanks (as Oberstleutnant a.D. der Luftwaffe Joseph Dietl)
Gerald Donlan
with special thanks to: english version
Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven
thanks
Gebhard Henke
thanks
Adolf Hitler
acknowledgment
Jürgen Kellermeier
thanks (as Dr. Jürgen Kellermeier)
Jan Mojto
thanks
David Müller-Meerkatz
thanks
Oskar Roehler
thanks
Eckhart Schmidt
thanks
Günter Struwe
thanks (as Dr. Günter Struwe)
James Twomey
with special thanks to: english version
Tom Tykwer
thanks
Hubert von Spreti
thanks
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