The Bunker - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[steve]

Reporters on the set said the sense of realism was so intense that at one point, when Anthony Hopkins entered the room to prepare for the next scene, actors portraying SS troops found themselves snapping to attention.

[duane]

At that point in his career, composer Brad Fiedel started to add more experimental sounds and techniques in his work. This movie was largely as an extended improvisation using sounds he created on the then-new Prophet-10 synthesizer.

[mathew]

In addition to the historical research, Anthony Hopkins styled Adolf Hitler after his paternal grandmother. His grandfather was a tyrant, of whom Hopkins was scared as a child.

[liam]

Anthony Hopkins says that by portraying a grotesque, crumbling, and drugged monster like Adolf Hitler, also turned him into something else. Hopkins even shouted at his then-wife and scared her during filming.

[kyle]

After viewing the dailies, one of the producers complained that Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Adolf Hitler was too sympathetic. Hopkins replied that his portrayal was based on the premise that ultimately even Hitler was also human, and that's what's so horrific about him.

[nina]

Michael Sheard (Heinrich Himmler) and Tony Steedman (Gen. Alfred Jodl) reprised their roles from [ITV Sunday Night Theatre: The Death of Adolf Hitler](/category/4405/the-death-of-adolf-hitler) (1973), which likewise depicted the final days of Adolf Hitler's life.

[willard]

In an interview published in the "Los Angeles Times" just before the film first aired on TV in 1981, Anthony Hopkins said his biggest problem as an actor in playing Adolf Hitler was working out a voice for the private Hitler. Many records and films exist of Hitler speaking in public, working his way into overwrought screaming, but Hopkins didn't think he had talked that way in private and had to work out a credible voice for the private Hitler speaking to friends and staff members.