Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.We hate to begin Screen Gems with a reference to an internet meme, but here, it feels appropriate.
Many of our dear readers will, no doubt, know the notorious “Hitler Rant” videos that have circulated on the web for years. Amusing or not, they have a decidedly less-than-hilarious origin.Downfall divided critics upon release in 2004.
The film, based in part on the memoir of Traudl Junge, Adolph Hitler‘s secretary, portrays the events of the final days of the Battle of Berlin.
Hitler (Bruno Ganz) and his deputies now function in a bunker amid shelling by the Red Army. Germany sits in ruin, its army decimated, but the Führer refuses to surrender.