Alone in Berlin

The story

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

E Emma ThompsonAnna Quangel B Brendan GleesonOtto Quangel D Daniel BrühlEscherich M Mikael PersbrandtPrall K Katharina SchüttlerClaire Gehrich L Louis HofmannHans Quangel R Rafael GareisenHerbert Wegner H Hildegard SchroedterIda Kuhn E Ernst StötznerDptm. Head Walter G Godehard GieseColonel Krüger J Jacob MatschenzDietrich Necker R Rainer ReinersSalesman Franz Kanz

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L Lars RudolphEnno Kluge U Uwe PreussPersicke K Katharina AbtFlower Shop lady I. Schneider J Jürgen TarrachRichard Schopf J Joshio MarlonKuno Barkhausen C Chris TheisingerSS / SD Sturmführer H Holger HandtkeDollfuss J Joshua GrotheAugust Persicke M Marko DyrlichAnselm Koch M Michael ScheelJudge Frank Schwartz H Hans Martin StierArnold Vogt M Monique ChaumetteFrau Rosenthal I Imogen KoggeFrau Busch J Joachim BißmeierHerr Fromm G Gisa FlakeBertha K Katharina BlaschkeFemale guard Gertrud Schäfer S Sanne SchnappFemale Worker Helene Scholz D Daniel SträßerZott P Patrick HastertSchröder R Rainer EggerEmil Barkhausen S Stefan SchumannObersturmbannführer I Irene RindjeMiss Kleinschmidt L Luisa WolfSecretary K Katrin PollittEva Kluge S Sammy ScheuritzelBaldur Persicke E Emil von SchönfelsNewspaper Boy M Moritz GroveYoung Man who cuts finger T Thomas NeumannParty Rep. Ludwig Weber H Hans PiesbergenJoachim Kessel T Thomas BestvaterColleague in Tram Karl Ziegler F Fritz RothFactory Clerk Max Winkler