Before the Fall, also known as NaPolA: Hitler's Elite, is a German movie directed and written by Dennis Gansel released in 2004. Plot summary In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) - high schools that produce Nazi elite. Against his father's will, he enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of his factory life to the university. During his year in seventh column (fifth form), this innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education; a night in the forest hunting for escaped Russian POWs brings things to a head Also know as · Napola - Argentina (festival title) / Denmark / Estonia / Germany (short title) · Before the Fall - International (English title) · Before the Fall (Napola) -