Before the Fall (2004)

Original title

Napola - Elite für den Führer

Directed by

Dennis Gansel

Genre

drama film, war film, boxing film, coming-of-age film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 366 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy from a working-class family wins a place at an elite Nazi boarding school. He forms a close friendship with a sensitive classmate, but the rigid discipline and brutal ideology of the school put everything at risk.

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What happens

Before the Fall (German: Napola – Elite für den Führer, literally "Napola – Elite for the Führer") is a 2004 German drama film written and directed by Dennis Gansel. It is set in a National Political Institutes of Education or "NaPolA" school developed by the Nazi Germany government. The military academies were designed as preparatory schools for the future Nazi elite. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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