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Alone in Berlin

War

Thriller

Drama

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.

Date: 02/15/2016

Rating: 6.7

Cast: Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl, Mikael Persbrandt, Katharina Schüttler, Louis Hofmann, Rafael Gareisen, Hildegard Schroedter, Ernst Stötzner, Godehard Giese, Jacob Matschenz, Rainer Reiners, Lars Rudolph, Uwe Preuss, Katharina Abt, Jürgen Tarrach, Joshio Marlon, Chris Theisinger, Holger Handtke, Joshua Grothe, Marko Dyrlich, Michael Scheel, Hans Martin Stier, Monique Chaumette, Imogen Kogge, Joachim Bißmeier, Gisa Flake, Katharina Blaschke, Sanne Schnapp, Daniel Sträßer, Patrick Hastert, Rainer Egger, Stefan Schumann, Irene Rindje, Luisa Wolf, Katrin Pollitt, Sammy Scheuritzel, Emil von Schönfels, Moritz Grove, Thomas Neumann, Hans Piesbergen, Thomas Bestvater, Fritz Roth

Emma Thompson