I don't recall putting this into my Lovefilm list, but it appeared on my doorstep the other day. Der Untergang goes by the English title "Downfall", details on Wikipedia.
It is in German with English subtitles. I thoroughly enoyed it and didn't notice that it is over 2 hours long. I must have understood about one word per sentence which is very encouraging.
I found that it helped that the story was familiar. I didn't lose the plot, as it were. The subtitles helped, of course. I have read Kershaw's book, so I found this particularly interesting.
"After previewing the film, Hitler biographer Sir Ian Kershaw wrote in The Guardian:
Knowing what I did of the bunker story, I found it hard to imagine that anyone (other than the usual neo-Nazi fringe) could possibly find Hitler a sympathetic figure during his bizarre last days. And to presume that it might be somehow dangerous to see him as a human being — well, what does that thought imply about the self-confidence of a stable, liberal democracy? Hitler was, after all, a human being, even if an especially obnoxious, detestable specimen. We well know that he could be kind and considerate to his secretaries, and with the next breath show cold ruthlessness, dispassionate brutality, in determining the deaths of millions.Of all the screen depictions of the Führer, even by famous actors, such as Alec Guinness or Anthony Hopkins, this is the only one which to me is compelling. Part of this is the voice. Ganz has Hitler's voice to near perfection. It is chillingly authentic."
Compared to this, the next Abschnitt will be much easier.