

The truth was their resistance.
February 15, 2016
1h 43m
EN
Vincent Perez
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.

Emma Thompson
Anna Quangel

Brendan Gleeson
Otto Quangel

Daniel Brühl
Escherich


Hans Fallada, Achim von Borries
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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

X Filme Creative Pool
DE
Master Movies
FR

FilmWave
GB

Pathé
FR
Buffalo Films
FR
WS Film
DE

Lipsync Productions
GB
Alone in Berlin
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