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	Eye Weekly - Prison follies - 11.07.02
		Oliver Hirschbiegel's job is to make a movie about 20 men beating on each other for two hours not only watchable but compelling.
		The amiable Hirschbiegel wasn't the only one on set who found his personality changing; the actors also started to live their parts.
		Fourteen-hour shooting days on a windowless set took their toll, and Hirschbiegel realized his cast was deeply entrenched in their roles when he asked the guards to improvise and come up with punishments for the prisoners.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.07.02/film/experiment.html (713 words)

	Oliver Hirschbiegel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver Hirschbiegel (born 26 March 1957) is a German film director.
		A Waldorf graduate, Hirschbiegel studied painting and graphic arts, later film, at the Hamburg University of Visual Arts.
		It recounts Adolf Hitler's last days, and sparked an extensive debate in Germany over the portrayal of Nazi leaders, but for Hirschbiegel, it also brought a number of prizes, including the nomination for the Academy Award for the best foreign film, which he did not win, however.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Hirschbiegel (226 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Film: Cover: Downfall
		Oliver Hirschbiegel says these are some of the questions that plagued him throughout his childhood.
		Hirschbiegel masterfully recreates this surreal and claustrophobic subterranean world, which had 11 metres of concrete separating the Führer's lair and the encroaching Russian army.
		Hirschbiegel turns up the unnerving sound effects as the stone-faced mommy dearest clamps their mouths shut until she hears the loud crunch of the poisonous capsules bursting.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2005/031005/cover_film.html (1229 words)

	{musicalbear ~ film} review > oliver hirschbiegel > downfall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		into the tired, triumphalist genre of the second world war film, director oliver hirschbiegel and writer-producer bernd eichinger’s new film downfall comes as a violent burst of clarity.
		hirschbiegel tips a wink to spielberg with the opening device of the water glass (taken from jurassic park) and his debt to the hand-held techniques perfected on saving private ryan is evident throughout.
		more than just making a great second world war film, hirschbiegel and eichinger have created that rare thing in the cinema, a profound and compelling tragedy.
	www.musicalbear.com /film/review/downfall_oliver_hirschbiegel_germany_2004 (792 words)

	The Visiting Press Conference - ComingSoon.net
		And I think what Oliver is doing is telling a really insidious tale that has great resonance for today and is scary and threatening and an interesting way of telling a science fiction thriller.
		Hirschbiegel: We are not shooting in the hospital, we are shooting at the hospital.
		Oliver is very...very specific how he makes a picture and we're not really going to have the kind of...I mean there's action in the movie, and there's tension in the movie but it's not in that same kind of green screen activity.
	comingsoon.net /news/topnews.php?id=11357 (4350 words)

	Rats in the ranks: a look at Oliver Hirschbiegel - theage.com.au
		It has already opened doors in Germany, where Hirschbiegel is at work on a bold new film designed around a woman's video-letter to the lover she's about to abandon.
		Hirschbiegel, however, provides no such emergency exit for his characters, instead portraying the research team as a collective variation on Dr Frankenstein, presuming to play God and creating a monster in the process.
		Neither was Hirschbiegel averse to manipulating on-set events to achieve the desired on-screen effects.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/09/13/1031608317161.html (1198 words)

	Oliver Hirschbiegel
		Oliver Hirschbiegel was born in Germany in 1957.
		Hirschbiegel studied film and photography at University in his hometown of Hamburg.
		Hirschbiegel’s next film The Visiting, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, is expected to be released through Hollywood in December 2006.
	web.uvic.ca /geru/439/hirschbiegel.html (223 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Downfall Movie Review
		Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall, which arrives on DVD this week, is first and foremost an exemplary demonstration of this power.
		Hirschbiegel's genius lies in slowly pulling aside that calm facade to reveal the lunacy beneath: the apocalyptic shrieks of the Third Reich in its final spasms.
		Having established the ordinary qualities of his characters, Hirschbiegel then allows allows them, one by one, to struggle with their legacy to the world.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /downfall.html (779 words)

	Kinoeye \| German horror: Oliver Hirschbiegel's Das Experiment
		Before this happens, Hirschbiegel reminds us several times that Tarek is a social other, his name marking him as a member of the Turkish immigrant community that has been part of German life since the arrival of the first Turkish foreign workers in the early 1970s.
		The question that arises from Hirschbiegel's equivocation is whether he would prefer a return to patriarchy proper, if only to steer clear of the alienation and social indifference bred by its contemporary successor.
		Her fatherless existence, the open spaces of her father's house and the unlimited expanse of sand, sky and water where Hirschbiegel places her together with Tarek in the closing shot, are all signs of potentiality.
	www.kinoeye.org /03/06/hantke06.php (4289 words)

	INTERVIEW: Behind the Bars of "Das Experiment"; Oliver Hirschbiegel on the Universal Appeal of Prison Psychiatry
		The film, the directorial debut of Oliver Hirschbiegel, is adapted from Mario Giordano's novel "Black Box," about a modern-day psychological experiment similar to Philip Zimbardo's famous Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971.
		Oliver Hirschbiegel: I did TV movies of various kinds: a mystery, a thriller, a cop thriller, and two dramas.
		Hirschbiegel: I did some research on the Milgram and Stanford Prison Experiments, and found two or three things that I loved and wanted to get onto the screen.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Hirschb_Oliver_020919.html (1638 words)

	KINNOPIO - Das Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hirschbiegel's film transplants the entire scenario to modern-day Germany, under the guidance of the steely-eyed Professor Thon (Edgar Selge) and his icy assistant Dr. Grimm (Andrea Sawatzki).
		Hirschbiegel cunningly exacts this marvelous shift right before the audience's eyes, like a magician performing a sort of snuff magic trick, so that at some indiscernible point in the second act, the viewer no longer regards the cast as participants in an experiment but as genuine guards and prisoners.
		Hirschbiegel's inclusion of, for instance, the romance, is for a purpose, as he includes everything in the film: to heighten the terror and draw out the suspense.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/2002/experiment.htm (926 words)

	Downfall (2004)
		Based in part on a book by Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary, this film by Oliver Hirschbiegel chronicles the last 10 days of the Third Reich as seen, partly, through the eyes of that 22-year-old Munich woman.
		Hirschbiegel and star Bruno Ganz, who channels Adolph Hitler with the same eerie believability as Jamie Foxx did with singer Ray Charles, were historians on the trail of truth, and their attention to detail and the director's reliance on hand-held cameras and voyeuristic filming make Downfall all the more chilling.
		Thankfully, if you watch Hirschbiegel's better-than-average commentary (in English), he points out the real-life characters and indicates their relationship to the action, as well as their historical significance.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=140374&buy=open&PID=10119368&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (900 words)

	Amazon.ca: Experiment [IMPORT]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Oliver Hirschbiegel has directed the movie excellently, in a perfect sequence of events, that raises tension, excitement, and curiosity in the audience.
		Oliver Hirschbiegel's film 'Das Experiment' is loosely inspired by the famous (infamous?) Stanford Experiment of 30 years ago.
		Hirschbiegel's film departs from that experiment in key ways, but perhaps the primary way is by having an undercover journalist Tarek/Prisoner 77 (played by Moritz Bleibtreu) purposely trying to instigate problems to enable his story to have more substance.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009AVA8 (1395 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: The Experiment Movie Review
		In 1971 a group of academics at Stanford University, CA, began an experiment designed to simulate a prison environment and find out what the effects of this environment would be on the average individual, both as prisoner and guard.
		Those in charge were horrified by the trends that were emerging -- with the experiment only halfway through, the prisoners were depressed and humiliated by their treatment and the guards were beginning to display sadistic and cruel patterns of behavior.
		Hirschbiegel allows the film to start off in a light-hearted fashion, with a romantic encounter between Tarek and a bereaved woman who accidentally crashes into his taxi.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /experiment.html (523 words)

	Interviews: DOWNFALL
		Oliver Hirschbiegel and Bruno Ganz came to Los Angeles to represent Downfall at the 2005 Oscars™, where Downfall was nominated in the category of Best Foreign Film.
		Hirschbiegel: I believe that she did not get any information about what was really going on from [Hitler's] inner circle, because there was this unwritten law that there was to be no talk about the camps, the Jews, the terrible way they treated the prisoners of war, and all that.
		Hirschbiegel: And the resemblance between [The Experiment and Downfall] is rather limited to that aspect that both deal, of course, with confined spaces.
	www.aboutfilm.com /features/downfall/feature.htm (4289 words)

	Oliver Hirschbiegel - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hirschbiegel became popular thanks to his tv movies (especially dramas and thrillers).
		In 2001 he shot his first movie for cinema: "Das Experiment"; that won several awards in many festivals all around the world.
		Hirschbiegel has demonstrated in all his movies to be an specialist of dramas set in claustrophobic environments.
	imdb.com /name/nm0386570/bio (330 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall: Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
		At the same time, Hirschbiegel lets the irony speak for itself and his unemphatic handling permits a surprising amount of comedy to spring out of the material without diminishing or distorting its other implications.
		Because of Hirschbiegel's broad engineering of his subject Ganz doesn't have to stretch for the laughs.
		Hirschbiegel does not have total control over the shape of his movie and his skills aren't always perfectly apt, but any moviemaker who knows not to trust himself, who gives history the last word over fiction in order to counteract the pull of romance, is some kind of hero.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/03/28/213049.php (2444 words)

	The Visiting Press Conference - ComingSoon.net
		Hirschbiegel: We are not shooting in the hospital, we are shooting at the hospital.
		Oliver is very...very specific how he makes a picture and we're not really going to have the kind of...I mean there's action in the movie, and there's tension in the movie but it's not in that same kind of green screen activity.
		And I think what Oliver is intending to do is something people haven't seen before and that always excites me. So they're not going to be hanging from wires and spending months in front of a green screen.
	www.comingsoon.net /news/topnews.php?id=11357 (4367 words)

	Oliver goes to Hollywood, News, Germany, Expatica
		Oliver Hirschbiegel came out of nowhere just last year with his film about Adolf Hitler's last days.
		Kidman, Hirschbiegel and the crew were in town to film scenes in Washington - where Kidman lived until she was three - and Baltimore, Maryland.
		Hirschbiegel said he's been getting more film scripts to read since the success of 'The Downfall'.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=24478 (543 words)

	Downfall (2004): Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes - PopMatters Film Review
		As director Oliver Hirschbiegel says repeatedly during his thoughtful DVD commentary (recorded in English and German, your choice which track), the "general approach of our movie" was to shows what happened and to show the Nazis as human beings.
		As Hirschbiegel says repeatedly in the commentary and the making-of featurette (which also features interviews with cast and crew members), the film means to be accurate concerning a series of events nearly lost to myth.
		Eva Braun (Juliane Köhler), Hirschbiegel observes, "had this strange happiness, that strange gayness, trying to cheer people up, knowing she would die there at the side of the Führer" (the director also notes that the parties at the time turned into orgies, "where everyone was completely drunk," a series of final remarkable excesses).
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/d/downfall-2005-dvd.shtml (1575 words)

	February 2005 \| blackfilm.com \| reviews \| film \| Downfall
		Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, Downfall is a three hour epic of Hitler's last days in his underground fortress (the Wolf's Nest).
		Oliver Hirschbiegel takes the time to develop every character in detail.
		Hirschbiegel shoots the Wolf's Nest as a suffocating lair of confined tunnels and rooms.
	www.blackfilm.com /20050218/reviews/downfall.shtml (981 words)

	Interview: DAS EXPERIMENT (2001)
		Hirschbiegel: I did a lot of research, and it showed me that what you see in that is basically what happens in any prison situation, in the States, China, Russia, or Germany.
		Hirschbiegel: Not just all women, but for me, she, in that situation they have together, is rather an example of a model for a completely different way of communication among human beings, which would be listening.
		Hirschbiegel: Especially in the beginning we tried a lot with introducing Berus, for instance, and the Steinhoff character, but very quickly we saw this was really about a mix of men, average guys being in that situation.
	www.aboutfilm.com /features/dasexperiment/interview.htm (4522 words)

	Review: Downfall directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
		Director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s picture, one of the most expensive ever made in Germany, is as good a war epic as has ever been filmed.
		Hirschbiegel pulls this off by seizing on riveting visual details—a golden cyanide capsule cradled in a palm, the dangling feet of a lynched dissident, a swirling blizzard of papers tossed out of office windows, Eva Braun jitterbugging in a backless dress as Russian artillery shells rattle the walls.
		Hirschbiegel gets terrific help from a marvelous cast and from screenwriter Bernd Eichinger, who never forces his sharply drawn characters to spit out bald patches of exposition.
	www.citypaper.com /film/review.asp?rid=8600 (852 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Downfall (Der Untergang) (2004)
		There is no denying that Hirschbiegel's film does a terrific job of crafting Hitler as a man with flashes of paranoia and megalomania, showcasing the slow breakdown of his military structure and his psyche.
		Hirschbiegel keeps up a fast pace that helps to build tension as the film progresses towards its inevitable conclusion.
		First is an amazing commentary track by director Oliver Hirschbiegel in which the director recounts the painstaking measures undertaken to make the film as historically accurate as possible.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=7735 (987 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Das Experiment
		Hirschbiegel paces the film masterfully, proceeding at a high-energy clip throughout, yet knowing exactly the right moments to take his foot off of the gas pedal.
		Some of the characters' actions and motivations occasionally come into question, but Hirschbiegel is so adept at accelerating the action at just the right time, that any implausible moments are easily dismissed.
		In addition to Bleibtreu, Justus Von Dohnanyi is captivating as the twisted Berus and Oliver Stokowski garners immense sympathy as Schutte, a simple man and fellow prisoner in way over his head.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/VideoHome/5F86FBE0FA86F1F588256C1D000AD79B?OpenDocument (730 words)

	USATODAY.com - Paranoia gets revisited in 'The Visiting' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Oliver Hirschbiegel, the German director making his English-language debut after earning acclaim for the Oscar-nominated Downfall, about the last days of Hitler, is happy with the playback of the unsettling scene.
		However, Hirschbiegel didn't want to change who he was while going Hollywood, and the normally bigger-is-best mogul adjusted accordingly.
		Actually, because this is only his third day on the set, he says, "I know nothing." Wright admires Hirschbiegel's talent ("There's nothing scarier than Hitler, nothing more alien"), but he also has a family-related reason for taking the job.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2006-01-11-visiting-main_x.htm (988 words)

	Amazon.com: The Experiment: DVD: Moritz Bleibtreu,Christian Berkel,Oliver Stokowski,Wotan Wilke Möhring,Stephan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's German-language movie The Experiment finds a group of 20 volunteers randomly divided into 12 prisoners and eight guards and asked to play out their roles for a fortnight while scientists study their reactions.
		Oliver Hirschbiegel has directed the movie excellently, in a perfect sequence of events, that raises tension, excitement, and curiosity in the audience.
		Hirschbiegel is a fantastic director, and here as in Der Untergang he's got a solid stable of actors and a terrific script to back up his native talent.
	www.amazon.com /Experiment-Moritz-Bleibtreu/dp/B00009AVA8 (1942 words)

	U-Press Telegram - FILM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We've been down in The Bunker before, but what separates Oliver Hirschbiegel's painstaking and provocative look at the last gasp of Hitler's Third Reich, "Downfall," is that, for the first time since 1956, it's a German filmmaker who's sifting through the rubble.
		If anything, Hirschbiegel's objective attitude makes the German dictator and his minions more frightening simply because it makes the whole nightmare seem plausible.
		When Magda Goebbels, wife of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph, methodically murders her six children because "they are too good for what is to come," you have a picture of madness that could exist anyplace where blind belief in a leader transcends reality.
	u.presstelegram.com /Stories/0,1413,218~24207~2729945,00.html (454 words)

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