The Last Act (1955)

The Last Act (1955)

From Heil to Hell!

Release Date: 1955, April 13
Directors: G.W. Pabst
Countries: Austria, Germany
Production: Cosmopol Film
Cast: Oskar Werner, John van Dreelen, Erik Frey, Kurt Jaggberg, Erland Erlandsen, Raoul Retzer, Ernst Waldbrunn, Willy Krause, Franz Messner, Lotte Tobisch, Curt Eilers, Otto Schmöle

Overview:

Albin Skoda embodies a frantic Adolf Hitler in his last days, scrambling to keep the Third Reich alive as morale within the bunker wanes and Berlin is encircled by enemy troops. Based on Michael A. Musmanno's book Ten Days to Die, Oscar Werner costars as fictional Nazi Hauptmann Wüst, a disillusioned middleman.