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(IMDb) More than 100,000 Germans packed theaters throughout the country Thursday night to see The Downfall, starring Bruno Ganz in the role of Adolf Hitler. Critics were deeply divided over the film, particularly because some of the scenes depict the wartime German leader sympathetically. However, British historian Ian Kershaw, who has written a respected book about Hitler, told the BBC. "Of all the portrayals of Hitler, this is the first which I found convincing."