since most review of this film be of screen see decade ago i would like to add a more recent one and the film open with stock footage of b 17 bombing germany and the film cut to oskar werner hauptmann ( captain ) wust character and his aide run for cover while make their way to hitler fuehrer bunker and once inside and they be debrief by bunker staff personnel and the film then cut to one of many conference scene with albin skoda give a decent impression of adolf hitler rally his officer to ultimate victory while werner character be show a slowly come to realize the bunker denizen be catch up in a fantasy world some non bunker event be depict and most notable be the flooding of the subway system to prevent a russian advance through them and a minor subplot involve a young member of the flak unit and his family difficulty in survive this film suffer from a number of detail inaccuracy that a german film make only 10 year after ww2 should not have include while the actor portraying goebbels ( willy krause ) wear the same uniform a hitler and include arm eagle goebbels wear a brown nazi party uniform with swastika armband the s soldier wear german army camouflage and the well documented scene of hitler award the iron cross to boy of the hitler youth be show a have take place inside the bunker ( it be do outside in the courtyard ) and lastly and hitler suicide weapon be clearly show a a belgian browning model 1922 most account agree it be a walther ppk some bit of act also seem wholly inaccurate with the drunken dance scene near the end of the film be notable and this bit be show a a cabaret skit and with a intoxicate wound soldier ( his arm in a splint ) maniacally goose step to music while a nurse do a combination striptease or belly dance and all by candlelight . this be actually embarrass to watch the most incredible bit be when werner captain wust gain an audience alone with skoda hitler and hitler be show a slump on a wall bench and drug and delirious and when werner character begin to question him and hitler start scream which bring in a ss guard who mortally wind werner character in the back with a gunshot this fabricate scene be not base on any true historic account werner character be then haul off to die in a anteroom while hitler prepare his own end and hitler farewell to his staff be show but the suicide be off screen and the final second of the movie show hitler funeral pyre smoke slowly form into a ghostly image of the face of the dead oskar werner or hauptmann wust this film be more allegorical than historical and anyone interested in this period would do good to check out more recent film such a the 1973 remake hitler represent the last 10 day or the german film downfall ( der untergang ) if they wish a more true accounting of this dramatic story and these last two film be base on first person eyewitness account and with hitler represent the last 10 day be compile from gerhard boldt autobiography a a staff officer in the fuehrer bunker and downfall be do from hitler secretary recollection and the screen play for der letzte akte be take from american nuremberg war crime trial judge michael musmanno book ten day to die and which be more a compilation of event ( many obviously fanciful ) than eyewitness history it be surprising that hugh trevor roper account and the last day of hitler be never make into a film .