Alone in Berlin

The truth was their resistance.

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

Emma Thompson

Brendan Gleeson

Daniel Brühl

Mikael Persbrandt

Katharina Schüttler

Louis Hofmann

Rafael Gareisen

Hildegard Schroedter

Ernst Stötzner

Godehard Giese

Jacob Matschenz

Rainer Reiners