Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

103 mins | Drama, Thriller, War | Feb. 15, 2016

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.

Alone in Berlin

103 mins | Drama, Thriller, War | Feb. 15, 2016

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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers X Filme Creative Pool, Canal+, Pathé!, Lipsync Productions, Master Movies, FilmWave, WS Film, Buffalo Films
Original title Alone in Berlin
Directors Arndt Wiegering, Nancy Rivas, Vincent Perez
Writers Hans Fallada, Achim von Borries, Vincent Perez

Cast

Emma Thompson

as Anna Quangel

Brendan Gleeson

as Otto Quangel

Daniel Brühl

as Escherich

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

Jacob Matschenz

as Dietrich Necker

Rainer Reiners

as Salesman Franz Kanz

Lars Rudolph

as Enno Kluge

Uwe Preuss

as Persicke

Katharina Abt

as Flower Shop lady I. Schneider

Jürgen Tarrach

as Richard Schopf

Joshio Marlon

as Kuno Barkhausen

Chris Theisinger

as SS / SD Sturmführer

Holger Handtke

as Dollfuss

Joshua Grothe

as August Persicke

Marko Dyrlich

as Anselm Koch

Michael Scheel

as Judge Frank Schwartz

Hans Martin Stier

as Arnold Vogt

Monique Chaumette

as Frau Rosenthal

Imogen Kogge

as Frau Busch

Joachim Bißmeier

as Herr Fromm

Gisa Flake

as Bertha

Katharina Blaschke

as Female guard Gertrud Schäfer

Sanne Schnapp

as Female Worker Helene Scholz

Patrick Hastert

as Schröder

Rainer Egger

as Emil Barkhausen

Stefan Schumann

as Obersturmbannführer

Irene Rindje

as Miss Kleinschmidt

Luisa Wolf

as Secretary

Katrin Pollitt

as Eva Kluge

Sammy Scheuritzel

as Baldur Persicke

Emil von Schönfels

as Newspaper Boy

Moritz Grove

as Young Man who cuts finger

Thomas Neumann

as Party Rep. Ludwig Weber

Hans Piesbergen

as Joachim Kessel

Thomas Bestvater

as Colleague in Tram Karl Ziegler