Before the Fall (2004)

2004 film by Dennis Gansel

Released

4 July 2004

Country

Germany

Language

German

Genre

Boxing film

Director

Dennis Gansel

Screenplay

Dennis Gansel, Maggie Peren

Producer

Molly von Fürstenberg

Music

Angelo Badalamenti

Cinematography

Torsten Breuer

Editing

Jochen Retter

Starring

Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Florian Stetter, Alexander Held, Sissy Höfferer, Thomas Drechsel, Martin Goeres, Devid Striesow

Running time

115 minutes

Distributor

Constantin Film

Set in

Germany

Before the Fall (German: Napola – Elite für den Führer, literally "Napola – Elite for the Führer") is a 2004 German drama film written and directed by Dennis Gansel. It is set in a National Political Institutes of Education or "NaPolA" school developed by the Nazi Germany government. The military academies were designed as preparatory schools for the future Nazi elite.

Cast

• Max Riemelt
• Tom Schilling
• Florian Stetter
• Alexander Held
• Sissy Höfferer
• Thomas Drechsel
• Martin Goeres
• Devid Striesow
• Joachim Bißmeier
• Justus von Dohnányi
• Claudia Michelsen
• Julie Engelbrecht
• Dennis Gansel
• Jonas Jägermeyr
• Michael Schenk
• Otmar Brancuzský
• Ljuba Krbová
• Zdeněk Maryška
• Karel Dobrý
• Jana Altmannová
• Bohumil Švarc
• Michael Beran
• Radek Zima
• Daniel Svoboda
• Johannes Zirner
• Götz Schubert
• Zdeněk Julina
• Jan Bidlas
• Michael Gerber
• Jakub Uličník

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• TMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q819084 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.