Trip to the Irish Film

Institute
The Transition year German group and a few
other Fingal students went to the Irish Film
Institute in the city centre to watch the
German film "13 Minutes" on the 17th of
November 2015.
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel the movie is
about a man who attempts to kill Adolf Hitler
called Georg Elser by setting a time bomb to
go off metres from where Hitler is giving a
speech in a Munich beer hall to members of
the Nazi party.
Unfortunately Georgs plan fails and Hitler
leaves the beer hall 13 minutes before the
bomb goes off, Georg is apprehended by Nazi
soldiers for trying to break into the beer hall
and is ultimately arrested moments before the
bomb goes off for wearing a Communist party
pin.
The rest of the film shows Georg go through
numerous brutal interrogations by the Nazis

after they discover bomb construction plans in

his pocket and recounts his earlier life through
flashbacks while he struggles to deal with the
fact that 8 innocent people were killed in the
bombing.
Overall it seemed everyone liked

the film
and enjoyed the characters and
storyline, we also learned a lot about
the Nazis and the real life Georg Elser
whom the film is based on, we
enjoyed the day and would happily go

back to the Irish film institute again.