Eva Braun (1912—1945) was the longtime companion and wife (for about thirty-six hours) of Adolf Hitler. They committed suicide together on the 30th April 1945; their corpses were burned with gasoline in the Reich Chancellery garden. Her cousin Gertraud Weisker described her as ‘the unhappiest woman I have ever met’. She attempted suicide twice in the 1930s: once in 1932 by shooting herself in the neck and a second time in 1935 by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
La rafle / The Round Up (2010): Featuring Franziska Schubert as Eva Braun; coming soon . . .
Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (2007): A demoralised, drug-addicted Adolf Hitler plays with a toy battleship in the bathtub, dresses his dog in a Nazi uniform and takes acting tips from a Jewish concentration camp inmate. It’s taken the German film industry fifty years to attempt a comedy about Adolf Hitler, and this just proves that the guy was seriously unfunny. While one review referred to this as ‘off-beat, absurdist fantasy’, another noted that the movie ‘proves that if you aren’t Mel Brooks, you probably can’t make a Holocaust comedy’. Katja Riemann was Eva Braun. Gregor Eckstein, Jeannette Latzelsberger & Dörte Eben were the makeup artists; Gregor Eckstein was also responsible for the special makeup effects.
Speer und er (2005): Featuring Eva Hassman as Eva Braun; coming soon . . .
Goebbels und Geduldig (2001): Featuring Katja Riemann as Eva Braun; coming soon . . .
The Bunker (1981): This TV movie depicted the events surrounding Adolf Hitler’s last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin. It featured Anthony Hopkins as Hitler with Piper Laurie as Magda Goebbels and Susan Blakely as Eva Braun. Lon Bentley was responsible for Anthony Hopkins’s makeup and was, I assume, key makeup artist.