
Alone in Berlin (2016)
Rating: 6.7/10
Duration: 103 min
Director(s): Vincent Perez,
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.
Cast
- Louis Hofmann as Hans Quangel
- Brendan Gleeson as Otto Quangel
- Lars Rudolph as Enno Kluge
- Emma Thompson as Anna Quangel
- Daniel Brühl as Escherich
- Hildegard Schroedter as Ida Kuhn
- Mikael Persbrandt as Prall
- Rainer Reiners as Salesman Franz Kanz
- Ernst Stötzner as Dptm. Head Walter
- Katharina Schüttler as Claire Gehrich
- Uwe Preuss as Persicke
- Katharina Abt as Flower Shop lady I. Schneider
- Rafael Gareisen as Herbert Wegner
- Godehard Giese as Colonel Krüger
- Jacob Matschenz as Dietrich Necker