Alone in Berlin (2016)
Starring Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl
Directed by Vincent Pérez
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.
Runtime: 103 min.
Rating: 6.7
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: France,Germany,United Kingdom
Genres: Drama,Thriller,War
Keywords: berlin, germany,based on novel or book,world war ii,1940s
Cast
Anna Quangel
Otto Quangel
Escherich
Prall
Claire Gehrich
Hans Quangel
Herbert Wegner
Ida Kuhn
Dptm. Head Walter
Colonel Krüger
Dietrich Necker
Salesman Franz Kanz
Enno Kluge
Persicke
Flower Shop lady I. Schneider
Richard Schopf
Kuno Barkhausen
SS / SD Sturmführer
Dollfuss
August Persicke
Anselm Koch
Judge Frank Schwartz
Arnold Vogt
Frau Rosenthal
Frau Busch
Herr Fromm
Bertha
Female guard Gertrud Schäfer
Female Worker Helene Scholz
Zott
Schröder
Emil Barkhausen
Obersturmbannführer
Miss Kleinschmidt
Secretary
Eva Kluge
Baldur Persicke
Newspaper Boy
Young Man who cuts finger
Party Rep. Ludwig Weber
Joachim Kessel
Colleague in Tram Karl Ziegler