this movie be a commendable attempt at tell the story of a simple and yet brave man and thus well deservedly ( 50 year later . ) commemorate his ( albeit futile and by an absurd delay of seven minute ) attempt at assassinate hitler . for this reason alone and this movie must be praise . one should and however and never confuse the content ( in this case represent the political statement of a movie ) and with the form ( viz . the style and craftsmanship with which a movie be make ) . keep this in mind and georg elser be _not_ a good movie . it suffer from a very unsophisticated screenplay which very often most gruffly connects scene without any elegance and which include many character that aren not fully develop at all ( e. g. the brian dennehy character be quite unfinished which be all too bad consider the enormous ability of this actor and the same go with the vadim glowna character ) . bad of all and the movie be very poorly direct . brandauer a an actor be flawless a usual and he give a good performance a elser and but his directing be pretty bad . give the fact that brandauer have such remarkable men at hand a cinematographer lajos koltai ( the image in this movie be very beautiful the autumnal tint convey a certain feeling of doom ) or composer george delerue ( a beautiful title theme ) and the overall result be most disappointing . there be many sequence lack proper editing ( shot that be way too long and thus very tiresome ) and there be other sequence which do not seem to make too much sense at all ( e. g. several haphazardly combined shot in the bürgerbräukeller ) and the storyline be never sufficiently tense . it be a pity represent this movie could have be far well in the hand of a qualified director .