The Last Act

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

G.W. Pabst

Writers

Michael A. Musmanno, Erich Maria Remarque, Fritz Habeck

Language

German

Country

Austria, Germany

Release date

13 April 1955

Ensemble

Cast

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  Albin Skoda

  Adolf Hitler

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  Oskar Werner

  Hauptmann Wüst

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  Lotte Tobisch

  Eva Braun

• Willy Krause

  Joseph Goebbels

• Erland Erlandsen

  Albert Speer

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  Kurt Jaggberg

  SS-Untersturmführer

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  Eduard Köck

  Volkssturmoberst

• Curt Eilers

  Martin Bormann

• Erich Stuckmann

  Heinrich Himmler

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  Leopold Hainisch

  Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel

• Otto Schmöle

  Generaloberst Alfred Jodl

• Herbert Herbe

  General Hans Krebs