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Before the Fall

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Before the Fall	comment	Before the Fall (also known as Napola - Elite fÃ¼r den FÃ¼hrer, or NaPolA: Hitler's Elite) is a 2004 drama film directed and written by Dennis Gansel.The year is 1942, in Nazi Germany. Having come to the schools' attention as a promising young boxer, working-class teenager Friedrich receives a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school, designed to groom the younger generation for leadership positions in the Nazi Party. When his parents refuse to let him attend, he runs away from home and falsifies their consent in order to attend. The camaraderie and opportunities afforded are at first a blessing, and he soon finds friends, including Albrecht, the introverted son of a high-ranking official. But as the year goes on the ugliness and violent hazing hiding beneath the school's idyllic surface become clear, with serious consequences for both boys.
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Before the Fall / int_120a6a29	type	ArtisticLicenceHistory
Before the Fall / int_120a6a29	comment	Artistic Licence â€“ History: One of the historical advisors for the film wrote an essay about just how wrong the portrayal of the Napola (and society) was. Like Friedrich entering the Napola years after it would normally be done, and clearly only on account of his boxing ability, without much regard for his academic record.
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Before the Fall / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Before the Fall / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: During the grenade drop the Drill Sergeant Nasty instructor runs for it rather than try to save the students, forcing one of them to perform a Heroic Sacrifice.
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Before the Fall / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
Before the Fall / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: Friedrich is first torn between his family and the opportunity offered by the National Political Academy, and then between his loyalty to Albrecht and what is morally right, and the security Nazism offers at a terrible price.
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Before the Fall / int_21d47bb7	type	Nouveau Riche
Before the Fall / int_21d47bb7	comment	Nouveau Riche: It is heavily implied that Albrecht's father has gained quite a bit of power and influence within the party. At some point in the movie he states that he'd have wished to attend a school like Napola as a boy instead of having to start working in his teens. Another hint is when Friedrich is invited at Albrecht's home and compliments his friend for his fancy house, and Albrecht explains that it has been requisitioned pre-furnished, meaning that the house has not always been theirs.
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Before the Fall / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Before the Fall / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Most of the kids, considering how its mentioned the school was eventually emptied out and sent to the front where half of them died.
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Before the Fall / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
Before the Fall / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: It's implied Albrecht's father disapproves of his son's hobby of writing, refusing to read his compositions.
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Before the Fall / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Before the Fall / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Germany's going to lose the war, and either way the boys of the academy aren't going to come out looking good.
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Before the Fall / int_43dc74d0	type	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man
Before the Fall / int_43dc74d0	comment	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Albrecht is a dark-haired, sensitive, somewhat weedy boy whose hobby is creative writing; Friedrich is a blond-haired, robust, slightly pig-headed boxer.
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Before the Fall / int_4484e50a	type	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
Before the Fall / int_4484e50a	comment	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure and Physical Fitness Punishment: One of the students, Siggi, wets his bed. When the harsh gym teacher is told about it, he orders Siggi to fetch his mattress, then to take off his pants and pee on the mattress. When he doesn't, the teacher makes the rest of the class do push-ups and jumping up until he obeys.
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Before the Fall / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Before the Fall / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Has some seriously beautiful cinematography.
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Before the Fall / int_4d846bbb	type	Bearer of Bad News
Before the Fall / int_4d846bbb	comment	Bearer of Bad News: Some very young students receive the news their father has been killed in action at dinner.
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Before the Fall / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Before the Fall / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Albrecht drowns himself during a school exercise, while Friedrich can only watch. Friedrich leaves the school in disgrace, stripped of his uniform. The real-life downer ending is delivered in the film's epilogue, stating that when the end of the war 'was near, the by-now fully indoctrinated young students left at the military academies were sent out to fight regardless of their level of practical preparation. Over half died.
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Before the Fall / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Before the Fall / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death
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Before the Fall / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
Before the Fall / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks: The gist of Albrecht's final class composition, and the film in general.
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Before the Fall / int_65158166	type	Measuring Day
Before the Fall / int_65158166	comment	Measuring Day: A rather grim subversion; the physical exam Friedrich gets upon entering the school includes the usual data (height, weight, physical wellness) but also measuring his skull with calipers and checking his blue eyes and blond hair against a set of color swatches from most to least Aryan. He passes with flying colors, but put in the context of those who would fail such a test, the scene is chilling.
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Before the Fall / int_667ae3bf	type	Gym Class Hell
Before the Fall / int_667ae3bf	comment	Gym Class Hell: Truth in television for the National Political Academies.
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Before the Fall / int_67882125	type	Lifesaving Misfortune
Before the Fall / int_67882125	comment	Life Saving Misfortune: Freidrich being expelled, given how many of the students end up dying.
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Before the Fall / int_6c22a57b	type	Jumping on a Grenade
Before the Fall / int_6c22a57b	comment	Jumping on a Grenade: One of the kids dies this way saving the others during a training accident.
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Before the Fall / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Before the Fall / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Albrecht, after realizing the horror of what he's complicit in.
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Before the Fall / int_7d260070	type	Corporal Punishment
Before the Fall / int_7d260070	comment	Corporal Punishment: Of the military/public humiliation variety.
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Before the Fall / int_7d88c452	type	Academy of Evil
Before the Fall / int_7d88c452	comment	Academy of Evil: Well, the film takes place in a Nazi boarding school. The physical education is punishingly harsh, the supervision is callous at best, and the classroom assignments naturally reinforce party rhetoric.
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Before the Fall / int_82d57ef5	type	Boarding School
Before the Fall / int_82d57ef5	comment	Boarding School: Starting out as a classic example of the camaraderie-and-midnight-pranks kind, quickly revealing itself to be a Boarding School of Horrors.
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Before the Fall / int_927ce65b	type	Accidental Hug
Before the Fall / int_927ce65b	comment	Accidental Hug: Minus the "moment of joy" in the usual way this trope is played. Albrecht and Friedrich get into a fistfight in a bathroom, and just end up collapsed in each other's arms, clinging to one another and crying.
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Before the Fall / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Before the Fall / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: When the dangerous escapees the students are sent out to shoot turn out to be unarmed boys, later crystallized in Albrecht's reading of his composition in class. Albrecht lacks the full awareness of what's going on that modern viewers have, but he clearly realizes he's part of something desperately wrong.
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Before the Fall / int_a0e3acee	type	Training "Accident"
Before the Fall / int_a0e3acee	comment	Training "Accident": The students are hauled out in the dead of night to help in hunting down some dangerous Russian prisoners of war who are hiding in the woods. While the situation isn't entirely a setup, it's clearly intended to test the boys' mettle, until it goes horribly off the rails.
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Before the Fall / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Before the Fall / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash
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Before the Fall / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
Before the Fall / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: Somewhat more benignly, Albrecht and Friedrich bond while trying to watch one of the few women around the academy undressing in her room after dark.
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Before the Fall / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Before the Fall / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: The academy featured is fictional, but such schools did exist from 1933 until the end of the war; the filmmaker's grandfather attended one.
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Before the Fall / int_b179eb00	type	Tragic Bromance
Before the Fall / int_b179eb00	comment	Tragic Bromance: Friedrich and Albert get very close but their last encounter includes an argument Then Albrecht dies.
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Before the Fall / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Before the Fall / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story
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Before the Fall / int_b4a44588	type	Tough Love
Before the Fall / int_b4a44588	comment	Tough Love: Friedrich's dad tries to keep him from joining the academy and slaps him when he persists but its kind of hard to blame him.
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Before the Fall / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Before the Fall / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: There's brief moments of idyllic happiness at the academy, including a scene where the boys build and successfully fly a wooden glider. But it doesn't last.
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Before the Fall / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Before the Fall / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: While the students at Allenstein are ostensibly being prepared for all manner of government positions when the war is over, they ultimately amount to this, ages ranging between eleven and eighteen years old.
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Before the Fall / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Before the Fall / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: The shooting of the Russian boys is one of these for Albrecht.
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Before the Fall / int_eb584221	type	Why Are You Not My Son?
Before the Fall / int_eb584221	comment	Why Are You Not My Son?: Albrecht's father, an emotionally distant officer, is clearly comparing him unfavorably to Friedrich.
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Before the Fall / int_fec6ea72	type	BloodSplatteredInnocents
Before the Fall / int_fec6ea72	comment	Blood-Splattered Innocents: You bet.◊ Overlapping with Jumping on a Grenade below, probably the only time in film where a trench full of Hitler Youth has constituted "innocents".
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