Funny / Downfall (2004)

• General Weidling takes a phone call while in the middle of a battle, but he is cut off when a bomb destroys the line. When a soldier asks him what the phone was about, Weidling turns and casually states:
  Weidling: I'm to be shot.
  • This becomes funnier when after reporting to the bunker to clear things up and personally making his report to Hitler, an impressed fuhrer not only cancels his execution order but also made him the commander of Berlin's defences.
    Weidling: I'd have preferred to be shot!
• In the extended cut, Eva asks Hitler to buy her the figure in the garden once the battle is over. Hitler replies that he has no idea who owns it and if it's state property, then it can't be used in a private garden. She says that after he beats the Russians, he can make whatever changes to the law he wants. This leads to the only time in which Hitler actually smiles as he describes this as "women's logic."
• While Magda Goebbels is writing her letter to her son, we see Linge and Günsche burning documents outside the bunker entrance when Hitler joins them. Günsche is initially smoking, but when he sees Hitler is standing right next to him, he sheepishly takes his cigarette out and throws it into the fire.
• Hitler's wedding:
  Lawyer: "My Führer, I... The Race Law require me to ask you this: are you of pure Aryan descent?"
  Hitler: "Yes."
  Lawyer: "May I see your ID?"
  Goebbels (annoyed): "You're talking with the Führer."
  • Which becomes more fun in context. The Race Law required proof that none of your parents and grandparents had any Jewish ancestry, but Hitler's father never met his own, so the Führer himself had no way to prove all of his grandparents were of Aryan descent.
• Each of the (in)famous Hitler's rants is somewhat comical due to how hammy Hitler gets when he's angry, especially the memetic scene where Günsche tells him that they can't find Fegelein.
  Hitler: What do you mean, "you can't find him"? Keep searching! I want to see Fegelein at once! If he left without permission, that's desertion! Treason! Bring me Fegelein! (banging on his desk while shouting Fegelein's name) FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN!
• As Albert Speer returns to the bunker, Hitler is having another meltdown (this time about Göring) and once again, it's audible in the hallway.
  Traudl: Herr Speer! How did you get into Berlin?
  Speer: Not easily. I must speak with the Führer.
  Linge: I'd wait a minute if I were you.
• Black Comedy is achieved in a scene where Traudl walks past a group of Nazis at a dinner table, discussing and mime-acting various methods of suicide as casually as if they were discussing the weather.
  • In a later scene, Mohnke tries to order another SS officer to come with him. The second officer responds by pulling out his gun and blowing his own brains out. The people around him show nothing more than mild annoyance at this, even the guy sitting next to him who was showered in his blood.
• During a solemn dinner, Helmut Goebbels is excitedly chatting with Traudl about how he likes "the sound of thunder" outside the bunker, since nothing can hurt them inside it. Right at that moment, we hear the sound of Hitler shooting himself, and then with perfect comic timing, he says this line:
  Helmut: Bullseye!
• Right after Günsche announces that Hitler is dead, everyone immediately lights up a cigarette. This actually happened, too. Hitler hated smoking and ran very aggressive campaigns to curb it. Once he was confirmed to be dead, everyone in the bunker finally felt it was safe enough to smoke.
• In the extended cut, General Vasily Chuikov is speaking with some war correspondents, who are in uniform, about the battle when suddenly he receives word that the German delegation has arrived to negotiate. Chuikov goes into a panic because all his generals are at the front, so he hastily awards medals and "promotes" the correspondents to pretend that they're his staff. He also shoves composer Matvey Blanter, who's not in uniform, into the wardrobe and tells him to be quiet. This actually happened in real life, though Blanter also fell out during the negotiations with Krebs.
  • When Krebs announces that Hitler has killed himself, the Russians stare at him in surprise for several seconds before Chuikov replies "We were aware of that." Krebs' look of disbelief at this obvious lie makes it even more hilarious.