Alone in Berlin

6.5/10 from 91 votes

Gender: Drama

Director: Vincent Pérez

Date of release: 15 Feb 2016

Description

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.

Extra

Runtime	103 minute
Producer	Canal+ Pathé Lipsync Productions Buffalo Films X-Filme Creative Pool Master Movies FilmWave WS Film
Language	English
Themes	based on novel world war ii berlin 1940s
Actors	Holger Handtke Lars Rudolph Katharina Schüttler Sanne Schnapp Hans Martin Stier Irene Rindje Uwe Preuss Daniel Brühl Brendan Gleeson Godehard Giese Rainer Reiners Louis Hofmann Jacob Matschenz Katharina Abt Jürgen Tarrach Ernst Stötzner Chris Theisinger Emma Thompson Mikael Persbrandt Katrin Pollitt Monique Chaumette Joachim Bißmeier Rainer Egger Rafael Gareisen Katharina Blaschke Daniel Sträßer Joshua Grothe Imogen Kogge Marko Dyrlich Joshio Marlon Gisa Flake Sammy Scheuritzel Hildegard Schroedter Moritz Grove Patrick Hastert Michael Scheel Stefan Schumann Luisa Wolf Emil von Schönfels