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Alone in Berlin
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
2016 · Directed by Vincent Perez · 103 min · War · Thriller · Drama · 14 frames
Tagline
The truth was their resistance.
Crew
- Screenplay: Achim von Borries
- Cinematography: Christophe Beaucarne
- Edited by: François Gédigier
- Music: Alexandre Desplat
- Production design: Jean-Vincent Puzos
- Produced by: Stefan Arndt, Christian Grass, Marco Pacchioni, James Schamus
Cast
- Emma Thompson as Anna Quangel
- Brendan Gleeson as Otto Quangel
- Daniel Brühl as Escherich
- Mikael Persbrandt as Prall
- Katharina Schüttler as Claire Gehrich
- Louis Hofmann as Hans Quangel
- Rafael Gareisen as Herbert Wegner
- Hildegard Schroedter as Ida Kuhn
- Ernst Stötzner as Dptm. Head Walter
- Godehard Giese as Colonel Krüger
Production
- Country: France, Germany, United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Studios: X Filme Creative Pool, Master Movies, FilmWave, Pathé
- Box office: $33,125
- Themes: berlin, germany, based on novel or book, world war ii, 1940s
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