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Eva Braun: Hitler's Mistress (DVD)
Year: 2005
Rating: PG
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Distributor: Shock
The Film: 1.5
FILMINK rates DVDs and Blu-rays out of 5“...this film is like the unearthed home videos of a particularly serious and dull family.”
Composed entirely of found silent film stock from Adolph Hitler's Bavarian Alps retreat, Berghof, and a literal play by play narration, the 49 minute Eva Braun: Hitler's Mistress is one of the three part "The War Zone" series. For aficionados, footage of Hitler, Braun, Himmler, Goebbels, Speer, Bormann and other famous Nazis in repose must be cinematic gold; for everyone else, this film is like the unearthed home videos of a particularly serious and dull family.
The narration does occasionally pierce its sport commentator format with some much appreciated historical curios, particularly regarding Braun herself. At 23 years Hitler's junior, Braun is described as his "simple companion", and apolitical and unambitious to the point of empty-headed. And, though as fiercely loyal as anyone in the Führerbunker, Braun's tragedy is that after nine years together and at least two suicide attempts, she was ultimately only Frau Hitler for two short shell-rattled days.
