THE BUNKER

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• Release Year: 1981
• Genre: War
• Plot: Academy Award®-winner Anthony Hopkins stars as Adolph Hitler in the last weeks of his life, struggling to maintain order as he loses control of his country, his people and finally his own mind. It is January 1945 when Adolph Hitler descends into a bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin. With the Russians advancing on one front and the British and Americans on the other, he must rely on the few men and women loyal to the Nazi cause: his chief architect Albert Speer (Richard Jordan), Martin Bormann (Michael Lonsdale), Joseph Goebbles (Cliff Gorman) and the mistress who became Hitler's wife in the bunker, Eva Braun (Susan Blakely).; ; In a powerful Emmy®Award-winning performance, Anthony Hopkins portrays Adolph Hitler over the 105 days of his decline. With The Third Reich crumbling around him, as he rages against those of his supporters now turning against him, in the final hours before the allied troops swarm into Berlin, Germany's leader must make a choice between surrender ... or suicide.
• Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, James Naughton, Michael Lonsdale, Piper Laurie, Susan Blakely, Martin Jarvis, Michael Kitchen, Robert Austin, Andrew Ray, Yves Brainville, Michael Culver, Julian Fellowes, Frank Gatliff, Terrence Hardiman, Edward Hardwicke, Karl Held, David King, Sarah Marshall, John Paul, Morris Perry, Pam St. Clement, John Sharp, Michael Sheard, Tony Steedman, Peggy Frankston, George Schaefer
• Director: George Schaefer
• Runtime: 2:25
• Company: Time-Life Productions, Societe Francaise De Production, Antenne 2 France, HBO Video
• Media Format: Movie