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13 Minutes (German: Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert) is a 2015 German drama film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel that tells the true story of Georg Elser's failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in November 1939. The title of the film is drawn from the fact that Elser's bomb detonated in a venue that Hitler had left just 13 minutes before.

13 Minutes
Film poster
Directed by	Oliver Hirschbiegel
Written by	Fred Breinersdorfer Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer
Produced by	Oliver Schündler Boris Ausserer Fred Breinersdorfer
Starring	Christian Friedel
Cinematography	Judith Kaufmann
Edited by	Alexander Dittner
Music by	David Holmes
Production company	Lucky Bird Pictures[1]
Distributed by	NFP marketing & distribution
Release dates	12 February 2015 (2015-02-12) (Berlin) 9 April 2015 (2015-04-09) (Germany)
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

It was screened out of competition at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.[2] It was one of eight films shortlisted by Germany to be their submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards,[3] but it lost out to Labyrinth of Lies.[4]

Plot

In November 1939, after planting a home-made bomb inside a column of a Munich Bierkeller, Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) attempts to cross into neutral Switzerland but is caught at the border. His bomb detonates but misses killing German leader Adolf Hitler by just 13 minutes.

The German security services find incriminating evidence on Elser and link him to the assassination attempt. They believe Elser must have been working with a group of conspirators and proceed to torture Elser. They also round up members of his family from his home village, including Else Härlen (Katharina Schüttler), a married woman Elser has been seeing.

When Else is brought before Elser, he fears for her life and tells Kripo police chief Arthur Nebe (Burghart Klaußner) and Gestapo head Heinrich Müller (Johann von Bülow) that he acted alone, procuring detonators from a steel factory and stealing dynamite from a nearby quarry. He outlines the two clockwork mechanisms he built to time the explosion and hopefully kill Hitler as he made a speech. Still not believed to have attempted the assassination alone, Elser is once more tortured using drugs (Pervitin), but with the same result as before—he insists that he acted alone.

Through flashbacks it is learned that Elser came to despise the Nazis and saw that Hitler needed to be removed to save Germany. Following his arrest, Elser was kept in concentration camps for five years and was shot a few days before American forces liberated Dachau concentration camp, a few weeks before the war ended. In his last days he hears that Arthur Nebe has been killed for his part in the Hitler assassination plot.

Elser is now regarded as a German resistance hero of the Second World War.

Cast

Critical reception

The film has been received generally positively by critics, holding a 76% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critical consensus reads, "13 Minutes explores an oft-neglected corner of World War II history with just enough craft and narrative momentum to offset a disappointing lack of subtlety."[5] The review in The Guardian newspaper noted the film as "...a heartfelt study of a man who tried to kill Hitler" The newspaper was also very complimentary about Christian Friedel's performance as Elser.[6]

However, the entertainment magazine Variety were less impressed, saying "... the absence of subtlety combined with predictable dollops of sentimentalism once again trivialize events in the name of making them understandable".[7] In The Daily Telegraph's review, the reviewer noted the film as having an "...overbearing sentimentalism and lacquered, Oscar-hungry sheen".[8]

References

External links

• 13 Minutes at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert

Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert ist ein deutscher Spielfilm aus dem Jahr 2015. Der Film porträtiert den Widerstandskämpfer gegen den Nationalsozialismus Georg Elser (Christian Friedel), dessen Attentat 1939 auf Adolf Hitler und nahezu die gesamte NS-Führungsspitze im Bürgerbräukeller in München scheiterte. Tragende Rollen sind mit Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner und Johann von Bülow besetzt.

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- [en] 13 Minutes (2015 film)

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[es] 13 minutos para matar a Hitler

13 minutos para matar a Hitler (Elser - Er hätte die Welt verändert en V. O.) es una película dramática alemana de 2015 dirigida por Oliver Hirschbiegel basada en el atentado fallido contra Adolf Hitler en noviembre de 1939 por parte de Georg Elser.

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[ru] Взорвать Гитлера

«Взорвать Гитлера» (нем. Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert — «Эльзер — он мог бы изменить мир», англ. 13 Minutes) — художественный фильм 2015 года немецкого режиссёра Оливера Хиршбигеля. Историческая драма, посвященная террористу-одиночке Георгу Эльзеру — немецкому антифашисту, который совершил неудачное покушение на Гитлера и его сподвижников в 1939 году.

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