13 Minutes
The film tells breath-taking story of Georg Elser, one of the greatest resistance fighters, who failed to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb at a Nazi convention in November 1939.
2005, Germany
1958, Weingarten, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
13 December 1984, Nürtingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
1962, Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
20 October 1979, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
19 July 1962, Munich, Germany
1983
1965
9 May 1948
21 December 1967, Hamburg, Germany
1973
10 August 1971, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
24 April 1944, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
11 April 1953, Wittenberge, German Democratic Republic
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
9 March 1979, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
13 September 1949, Berlin, Germany
March 17, 2016
As a first step back into polite cinematic society after a long run of duffers, Hirschbiegel's film has a certain value to it.
July 22, 2015
As with countless films set in the period, the absence of subtlety combined with predictable dollops of sentimentalism once again trivialize events in the name of making them understandable.
November 05, 2016
The movie is an effective and frightening study of how a country can collapse morally and socially without its citizens realizing what is happening. [Full review in Portuguese.]
February 23, 2016
13 Minutes presents a redundant historical "what if" that leaves itself open to charges of relativization.
May 04, 2016
History robs the film of suspense potential, of course... What remains reads like a noble, but slightly worthy, attempt to disinter the reputation of a man largely forgotten in Germany until the publication of a 1999 biography.
July 22, 2015
The movie is well acted and mostly absorbing, but it spells out everything so painstakingly that there's zero room for subtext.
July 13, 2015
An important story, of course, but only mildly engaging as cinema.
April 17, 2016
13 Minutes is an elegant, expensive-looking, respectful history lesson that finds just enough interesting texture ... to save it from becoming dry
December 21, 2015
The narrative keeps up the intrigue, with Elser's eventual fate being not quite as clear-cut as you might expect.
December 04, 2016
As a testament to a forgotten wartime hero, it's a credible, well-crafted portrait.
January 01, 2016
Jumping around in time just a shade too much in the midsection, Hirschbiegel's film nevertheless proves a compelling historical drama.
February 06, 2017
Straightforward and fortuitously timed bio-drama of a nearly forgotten German who tried to assassinate his country's fascist dictator at the beginning of World War II.
