Before the Fall with Max Riemelt: DVD Cover

    Before the Fall
    a.k.a. Napola Director: Dennis Gansel Cast: Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Devid Striesow, Joachim Bissemeyer

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    • DVD Release Date: 06/13/2006
    • Original Release: 2004
    • Rating: Not Rated

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    Documentary featurette: The making of Before The Fall; Documentary featurette: Before The Fall in New York; Deleted scenes; Storyboards; Scene selections; Widescreen; Coming attractions; Trailer; Photo gallery; Dolby 5.1/2.0 audio; Optional subtitles

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    Disc #1 -- Before The Fall
    1. In The Ring [:33]
    2. Nordic Class One B [3:55]
    3. Family Objections [3:27]
    4. Leaving Home [3:52]
    5. Allenstein [2:58]
    6. Future Governors [4:19]
    7. New Enemy [2:52]
    8. Albrecht [2:53]
    9. Morning Training [2:32]
    10. Advanced Learning [2:43]
    11. Boxing Regimen [4:11]
    12. Mail [2:49]
    13. School Days [3:40]
    14. Flight Till K.O. [4:47]
    15. Hand Grenades [4:52]
    16. Posthumous Mettle [4:42]
    17. Weekend Away [3:00]
    18. Birthday Party [3:26]
    19. Friedrich Vs Albrecht [3:38]
    20. Eighth Column [2:57]
    21. Russian Prisoners [1:45]
    22. Order to Fire [3:17]
    23. Executions [5:53]
    24. Wrong Essay [2:37]
    25. Resistance [5:43]
    26. Frozen Lake [3:01]
    27. Grief [5:26]
    28. Thrown Match [4:14]
    29. Kicked Out [5:02]
    30. End Credits [3:27]

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    Editorial Reviews

    One of the Third Reich's sinister plans for training a legion of strong and obedient young men to do their bidding is exposed in this historical drama, inspired by true-life events. In 1942, Friedrich Weimer (Max Riemelt) is a 16-year-old amateur fighter who is spotted while working out at a boxing club by Heinrich Vogler (Devid Striesow). Vogler is a recruiter for the National-Political Institutes of Learning (called "NAPOLA" for short), where promising young men with various talents will be taught to hone their strength, cunning, and fearlessness to a fine point, with the ultimate goal of using NAPOLA graduates to help rule the territories Nazis will overtake once they've won the war. Vogler invites Weimer to join the NAPOLA training facility in Allenstein, and he accepts, despite the strong misgivings of his family. Weimer is at first enthusiastic and committed to his new regimen, and becomes friendly with a fellow student, Albrecht Stein (Tom Schilling), an aspiring writer whose father, a important man in the German military, would like to see him join the SS. Stein does not embrace the training with the same enthusiasm as many of his fellows, and in time he and Weimer develop feelings for one another that go beyond friendship. In time, Weimer begins to lose his enthusiasm for NAPOLA, especially after a mission to find escaped Russian prisoners leads to the death of unarmed teenagers, and he looks for a way to rebel against the repressive system. Filmmaker Dennis Gansel dedicated Before the Fall to his grandfather, Peter Fritz Gansel, a NAPOLA veteran whose stories of the school's brutality inspired the movie. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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    February 05, 2007: This movie is, by a ten fold, the best depiction of Napolas' boys in training and school. It's unlike anything i've ever seen and i hope EVERYONE who ever reads this review will see the movie. You will NOT be disappointed, to say the least. The actors are incredible, the scenery is surreal, and the relationships are so well played it made me shiver. SEE IT. This is the type of movie everyone should watch becuase it means so much more than the actual film. I'd give this film as many stars as you can muster. It's BINDBLOWING!!!