Before The Fall (Napola) - Trailer

As Hitler launches the first major military aggressions of World War II, the strongest and smartest German young men enter exclusive schools known as "Napolas" to train as future leaders of the Third Reich. In 1942, a recruiter from one such Napola sets his sights on Friedrich, a talented adolescent boxer, who sees the training and prestige offered by the Napola as his ticket out of an impoverished family unit run by his anti-Nazi father.

In the Napola, Friedrich learns to fight without pity, becoming a formidable killing machine. Propagandistic classes reinforce a hardened worldview of his Aryan superiority.

Meanwhile, Friedrich forms a bond with fellow cadet Albrecht Stein, an aspiring writer and son of the local Nazi governor. Governor Stein dotes on Friedrich, barely masking his contempt for his own son's sensitivity. But Friedrich admires and empathizes with his friend, even though Albrecht criticizes Friedrich's brutality in the ring.

As the war escalates, the school's military training also intensifies. Unscrupulous trainers humiliate the more vulnerable cadets in front of their peers and send the others out on dubious war game exercises. In one such nightmarish event, they instruct Friedrich and Albrecht to shoot escaping POW's who turn out to be unarmed Russian civilians. Tormented with guilt, Albrecht rebels, and Friedrich must choose between his sworn allegiance to the Fuehrer and his best friend's moral imperative.

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[Larvemannenz001]

Germany make a lot of good movies actually.

[En0miS09]

@ShinySunMuffin chill out, it's not your fault :P

[toyotasera55]

@toyotasera55 However, it turned out to be a really great film and I recommend it! It shows an interesting part of German military history as well as history within the Third Reich in general and shows it in a great, entertaining and thought provoking way. It was really good! It was nice to watch a film where the Germans were just as human as any other person in WW2 for once. The grenade scene in the trench is rather sad.

[toyotasera55]

I liked this film, it was really good but I was disappointed in some ways. In the UK ( I dont know about elsewhere) this film is sold with British and American troops on the front and the blurb on the back of the box makes no mention to it being set in Germany and only has one small picture of German troops. I brought it thinking it was a British/American film so I was a bit disappointed when it was not about that. (Napola was not mentioned on the UK edition box).

[marttimarti]

TOM SCHILLING <3

[karou1995]

i cried so much. i didn't like that end...

[Rassamdul]

one of the best movies i have seen in a very long time. Great job

[GiggleBlizzard]

@FNKOMH It's got many names, Before the Fall is the english name for it, Napola is the original name for it.

[CigdemYAG]

The best movie, I've ever seen! Respect!

[Ketuna1995]

I've been searching for this movie for ages

[Ajdsc]

Best Movie

[JennyMelson]

this movie is soo sad, i've cried so much