Q 01/05

Which Swiss actor plays Adolf Hitler in Downfall, the 2004 German film about the dictator's final days in Berlin?

A) Christoph Waltz

B) Bruno Ganz

C) Ulrich Mühe

D) Armin Mueller-Stahl

Answer · why

B) Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz, born in Zürich, was the director's first choice but hesitated to accept, and many of his friends advised him against playing the dictator.

Q 02/05

In Downfall's much-parodied bunker rant, Hitler erupts on learning which SS general never launched his attack?

A) Walther Wenck

B) Sepp Dietrich

C) Paul Hausser

D) Felix Steiner

Answer · why

D) Felix Steiner

Felix Steiner had warned that his force, outnumbered ten to one, could not attack. Eyewitnesses in the bunker recorded the real outburst of 22 April 1...

Q 03/05

Downfall parody videos keep the bunker scene's original German audio but change which part of the clip?

A) The subtitles

B) The background music

C) The actors' faces

D) The uniforms

Answer · why

A) The subtitles

The subtitles are rewritten so Hitler seems to rage about football transfers, pop feuds or cancelled exams while the German dialogue plays on untouche...

Q 04/05

To prepare for Downfall, the actor playing Hitler visited a hospital to study patients with which condition?

A) Multiple sclerosis

B) Huntington's disease

C) Parkinson's disease

D) Motor neurone disease

Answer · why

C) Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease was his own diagnosis of Hitler, reached after watching wartime newsreels of the dictator's shaking body.

Q 05/05

How did the director of Downfall react in a 2010 magazine interview to online parodies of his bunker scene?

A) He sued their makers

B) He found them funny

C) He called them tasteless

D) He felt insulted

Answer · why

B) He found them funny

He found them funny, saying he often laughed out loud at a scene he had staged himself and calling the spoofs a fitting extension of the film's purpos...