Alone in Berlin (2016)
The truth was their resistance.
Synopsis
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
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Emma Thompson
as Anna Quangel
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Brendan Gleeson
as Otto Quangel
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Daniel Brühl
as Escherich
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Mikael Persbrandt
as Prall
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Katharina Schüttler
as Claire Gehrich
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Louis Hofmann
as Hans Quangel
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Rafael Gareisen
as Herbert Wegner
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Hildegard Schroedter
as Ida Kuhn
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Ernst Stötzner
as Dptm. Head Walter
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Godehard Giese
as Colonel Krüger
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Jacob Matschenz
as Dietrich Necker
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Rainer Reiners
as Salesman Franz Kanz
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Lars Rudolph
as Enno Kluge
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Uwe Preuss
as Persicke
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Katharina Abt
as Flower Shop lady I. Schneider
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Jürgen Tarrach
as Richard Schopf
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Joshio Marlon
as Kuno Barkhausen
- Chris Theisinger as SS / SD Sturmführer
Crew
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Vincent Perez
Director
- Christophe Beaucarne Director of Photography
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François Gédigier
Editor
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Alexandre Desplat
Original Music Composer
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Stefan Arndt
Producer
- Christian Grass Producer
- Marco Pacchioni Producer
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James Schamus
Producer
- Uwe Schott Producer
- Paul Trijbits Producer
- Achim von Borries Screenplay
