Elser

Elser

On November 8, 1939, a meeting between Adolf Hitler and the leaders of the Nazi Party took place in one of the breweries in Munich. A bomb exploded in the building, but Goebbels, Himmler, Bormann, and most importantly, Hitler, left the facility a few minutes earlier. The organizer of the attempt, Georg Elser, was detained at the border with Switzerland while trying to escape. He was arrested and sent to Munich for questioning. According to the Nazis, there must have been a conspiracy in which a humble carpenter acted as a pawn of a foreign state. But it is not so. Georg committed the assassination of his own free will, outraged by the growing brutality of the regime. Read more The director of the film "Blow up Hitler" Oliver Hirschbiegel has already addressed the history of Nazi times in his film "Bunker". The tape tells about the last hours of Adolf Hitler in the Berlin bunker. The military drama was filmed based on Joachim Fest's bestseller "The Fall. Hitler and the Collapse of the Third Reich". "Bunker" became one of the highest-grossing films in Germany, won many awards and was nominated for an Oscar in the category of best foreign film in 2005. The main roles in the film "Blow up Hitler" were performed by Christian Friedel, Katarina Schüttler, Burghart Klaussner, Johan von Bülow, Rüdiger Klink, Simon Licht and others. The actor who played Elser, Christian Friedel, studied documentary materials and eyewitness videos to better prepare for the role. One of the producers of the film "Blow up Hitler" was Andreas Schreitmuller. His long-term work in the film industry was connected with famous projects: "Run, Lola, Run" by Tom Tykwer, "Solino" by Fatih Akin, "Goodbye Lenin", "Antichrist" by Lars von Trier, "Victoria" by Sebastian Schipper, etc. Oliver Hirschbiegel is not the first director to bring Georg Elzer's story to life on the big screen. In the 1960s, Rainer Ehrler made the television film "Der Attentäter", in which the main character is portrayed as a marginal and a loser. And at the end of the 80s, Klaus Maria Brandauer presented to the public the tape "Georg Elser - one of the Germans", made in the genre of a classic thriller.