Alone in Berlin (film)
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| Directed by | Vincent Pérez |
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Stefan Arndt Uwe Schott Marco Pacchioni Christian Grass Paul Trijbits James Schamus |
| Written by | Vincent Pérez Achim von Borries Bettine von Borries |
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Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada |
| Starring |
Emma Thompson Brendan Gleeson Daniel Brühl |
| Music by | Alexandre Desplat |
| Cinematography | Christophe Beaucarne |
| Edited by | François Gédigier |
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| Distributed by | X-Verleih (Germany) Pathé Distribution (France) |
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103 minutes |
| Country | Germany France United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Alone in Berlin is a 2016 war drama film directed by Vincent Pérez and written by Pérez and Achim von Borries, based on the 1947 fictionalized novel Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. The novel's characters Otto and Anna Quangel are based on the real lives of Otto and Elise Hampel. When their son dies in France, the couple start writing postcards to urge people to protest against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. The film stars Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, and Daniel Brühl. Principal photography began on 27 March 2015 in Berlin. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
In 1940, a working-class couple in World War II-era Berlin, Otto and Anna Quangel, decide to resist Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, after receiving the news of the death of their only son. An additional impetus for their growing resistance to the regime is the fate of an old Jewish woman living in their building. Though the official deportation of Jews to death camps had not yet started, Jews have no recourse to any legal protection. Ruthless Nazis - and "non-ideological" common criminals - use the opportunity to loot the old woman's apartment with impunity. Despite the efforts of the Quangels' and other kind neighbors to help her, the persecution ends with the old woman jumping to her death from a high floor window.
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