It may be modern history's greatest "what if?" -- the story of a man who tried to kill Adolf Hitler before the worst of the Nazi tyrant's "total war" and Holocaust. The drama "13 Minutes", which premiered at the Berlin film festival Thursday, tells the story of Georg Elser, the man who narrowly failed to assassinate the German leader. It is one of two new films in Berlin that, in the 70th anniversary year of the end of World War II, celebrates the heroism of the few Germans who dared resist the Nazi regime, mostly to be jailed, tortured or killed. Director Oliver Hirschbiegel, who made the acclaimed 2004 movie "Downfall" about Hitler's final days, said he wanted to set a cinematic monument to Elser, who had long been wrongly characterised as an oddball and loner.
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