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

Anna Quangel

Brendan Gleeson

Otto Quangel

Daniel Brühl

Escherich

Mikael Persbrandt

Prall

Katharina Schüttler

Claire Gehrich

Louis Hofmann

Hans Quangel

Rafael Gareisen

Herbert Wegner

Hildegard Schroedter

Ida Kuhn

Ernst Stötzner

Dptm. Head Walter

Godehard Giese

Colonel Krüger

Crew

Tamar Aviv

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Michael Scheel

Executive Producer

Julia Lechner

Makeup Artist

Peter Hampden

Executive Producer

Alison Thompson

Executive Producer

Norman Merry

Executive Producer

Jörn Seifert

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Oliver Ziem-Schwerdt

Makeup Artist

Vincent Perez

Co-Writer

Hans Fallada

Novel

Clips & Videos

Alone in Berlin - Official Trailer I HD I IFC Films