The Bunker (1981 film)

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The Bunker
Genre	Drama History War
Based on	The Bunker by James P. O'Donnell
Written by	John Gay
Directed by	George Schaefer
Starring	Anthony Hopkins Richard Jordan Cliff Gorman Susan Blakely
Music by	Brad Fiedel
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Bernard Sofronski
Producers	David Susskind Diana Kerew
Cinematography	Jean-Louis Picavet
Editor	Greyfox
Running time	154 minutes
Production company	Time-Life Productions
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	January 27, 1981 (1981-01-27)
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The Bunker is a 1981 American made-for-television historical war film produced by Time-Life Productions based on the 1975 book The Bunker by James P. O'Donnell.^[1]

The film, directed by George Schaefer and adapted for the screen by John Gay, is a dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the Battle of Berlin. The film stars Anthony Hopkins as Hitler, plus an all star cast including Richard Jordan, Susan Blakely, and Cliff Gorman.

At the 33rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 1981, Anthony Hopkins won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie beating out two actors from the miniseries Shogun (Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune) and two actors from the miniseries Masada (Peter O'Toole and Peter Strauss).