Downfall (2005) and Triumph of the Will (1935) w/ George Dardess | Ep. 50

Podcast: Bang-Bang Podcast · Van and Lyle are Bang-Bang

Opublikowano: 2025-11-08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com Van and Lyle are joined by the literary critic George Dardess to talk about Downfall (2004) and its grim mirror, Triumph of the Will (1935). Where Leni Riefenstahl turned the Nazi project into divine spectacle, an ecstatic choreography of power and obedience, Bernd Eichinger and Oliver Hirschbiegel stage its total collapse. The conversation moves from the bunker’s suffocating intimacy to the ruined streets of Berlin, tracing how Downfall strips away the mythic machinery of fascism and leaves only exhaustion, delusion, and death. ...