Downfall (2004)

Heino Ferch: Albert Speer

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Quotes 

• Albert Speer : You must be on stage when the curtain falls

• Martin Bormann : [reading folder in hand]  My Führer, following your decision to stay in Berlin, do I have your approval as Vice Chancellor to immediately take charge of the entire Reich with the necessary power and authority? If I receive no answer by 10 p.m., I will assume that you have been incapacitated. I will serve the well-being of our people and fatherland.

  [closes folder and puts it down] 

  Martin Bormann : He's betraying Germany... and you!

  Walter Hewel : Göring's concern isn't unjustified. If our communication system breaks down, which could happen at any time, we'd be cut off from the world; we could no longer pass on orders.

  Joseph Goebbels : I see it differently. Göring wants to seize power. I never trusted that mob he gathered at Obersalzberg; it stinks of a coup.

  Adolf Hitler : That failure. That sponger... A parvenu! A lazybones!

  [Albert Speer returns while Hitler rants offscreen] 

  Adolf Hitler : How dare he declare me unable to act? Tomorrow he might declare me dead!

  Albert Speer : Hello, Frau Junge.

  Traudl Junge : Herr Speer. How did you get into Berlin?

  Albert Speer : It wasn't easy, but I must speak with the Führer.

  Heinz Linge, Kammerdiener : I'd wait here if I were you.

  Adolf Hitler : The Luftwaffe... What did he do with it? That was reason enough to execute him! That morphine addict... helped to corrupt this country! And now this...

  [Hewel looks down in disappointment] 

  Adolf Hitler : He betrayed me of all people! Me of all people!

  [pause] 

  Adolf Hitler : I want Göring to be deprived of power and removed from office. If I don't survive the war, that man is to be executed at once.

• Traudl Junge : Herr Speer! How did you get into Berlin?

  Albert Speer : It wasn't easy, but I must speak with the Führer.

  Heinz Linge, Kammerdiener : If I were you, I'd wait a bit.