Film makers in Germany are preparing to release a series of movies about the Nazi era after "The Downfall", a depiction of Adolf Hitler's final days, has broken box-office records after the first 10 days of its release. The film, which shows the Nazi dictator in his bunker in 1945, drew 483,000 people on its opening weekend. By Tuesday this week, the figure is expected to reach 1 million, and the production has been nominated as Germany's entry for the best foreign film award at the Academy Awards. German cinema-goers will soon be offered other depictions of the Nazi era, including "The Ninth Day", set in a concentration camp, "The Goebbels Experiment", which contains extracts from the propaganda chief's diaries, and "The Devil's Architect", a docudrama about Hitler's chief architect Albert Speer. "Producers have always known Hitler would be a big money-spinner, but it's only now that it's become acceptable to exploit our past in this way," an observer told the British "Sunday Times".