I have seen a number of young people review this movie and go on endlessly about the lack of cinematography and whatnot. This is irrelevant. This is an hour and a half of the kind of soul-searching that, if you can let go of your desire to remain above and outside of it, will change you. Frau Junge tells us the mundane and then the mundane descends into the horror that we went in expecting, but yet when she tells of the horror, we are still unprepared. Movie after movie has been made about Hitler's last days, and some have been very good. But there is nothing like a first-hand account. This is not a movie to see if you don't like documentaries but kind of like to learn about Nazis, this is a movie to see if you want to learn about the dark nights of the human soul. Watching an elderly, grandmotherly woman go through the gamut of emotions discussing something that everyone born since then learned about from second grade on yet she was almost totally unaware of while in the midst of it
I found it stunning, devastating, and very, very touching.
