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Released Year: 2016
Runtime: 103 minutes
Genre: Drama
Directors: Vincent Pérez
Casts: Daniel Brühl, Michael Scheel, Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Hans Martin Stier, Holger Handtke, Jürgen Tarrach, Mikael Persbrandt, Moritz Grove, Hildegard Schroedter, Katrin Pollitt, Rainer Reiners, Rafael Gareisen, Marko Dyrlich, Chris Theisinger, Lars Rudolph, Katharina Schüttler, Louis Hofmann, Ernst Stötzner, Godehard Giese, Jacob Matschenz, Uwe Preuss, Katharina Abt, Joshio Marlon, Joshua Grothe, Monique Chaumette, Imogen Kogge, Joachim Bißmeier, Gisa Flake, Katharina Blaschke, Sanne Schnapp, Daniel Sträßer, Patrick Hastert, Rainer Egger, Stefan Schumann, Irene Rindje, Luisa Wolf, Sammy Scheuritzel, Emil von Schönfels, Thomas Neumann, Hans Piesbergen
IMDB: Alone in Berlin (2016)
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Village Voice -
While not the most formally adventurous or action-packed picture, it is a film of compelling urgency.
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The Playlist -
There is always something of value in the sincere recreation of ordinary heroism. And Perez’ film does sincere if ordinary justice to the idea that where there is a will for it, resistance can find a way, be it so small as to be postcard-sized.
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The Guardian -
Filmed with competence rather than actual verve, Alone in Berlin works – just about. There’s enough of a thriller about it to hold the interest, even if it’s a bit on the stodgy side.
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Variety -
Tastefully lit and art-directed throughout, with a somberly mellifluous Alexandre Desplat score to ease it along, this fact-based drama finally cushions its harshest emotional blows, though Brendan Gleeson’s deeply sad, stoic dignity in the lead cuts through some of the padding.
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The A.V. Club -
A lump in the throat inspired by real-life heroism is all that this dour, monotonous drama has to offer. Indeed, it’s easy to guess that the story is fact-based—it’s far too blah to have been invented from scratch.
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Alone in Berlin (2016)
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.
Alone in Berlin (2016)
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Information
Released Year: 2016
Runtime: 103 minutes
Genre: Drama
Directors: Vincent Pérez
Casts: Daniel Brühl, Michael Scheel, Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Hans Martin Stier, Holger Handtke, Jürgen Tarrach, Mikael Persbrandt, Moritz Grove, Hildegard Schroedter, Katrin Pollitt, Rainer Reiners, Rafael Gareisen, Marko Dyrlich, Chris Theisinger, Lars Rudolph, Katharina Schüttler, Louis Hofmann, Ernst Stötzner, Godehard Giese, Jacob Matschenz, Uwe Preuss, Katharina Abt, Joshio Marlon, Joshua Grothe, Monique Chaumette, Imogen Kogge, Joachim Bißmeier, Gisa Flake, Katharina Blaschke, Sanne Schnapp, Daniel Sträßer, Patrick Hastert, Rainer Egger, Stefan Schumann, Irene Rindje, Luisa Wolf, Sammy Scheuritzel, Emil von Schönfels, Thomas Neumann, Hans Piesbergen
IMDB: Alone in Berlin (2016)
Storyline
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.
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Reviews
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Village Voice -
While not the most formally adventurous or action-packed picture, it is a film of compelling urgency.
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The Playlist -
There is always something of value in the sincere recreation of ordinary heroism. And Perez’ film does sincere if ordinary justice to the idea that where there is a will for it, resistance can find a way, be it so small as to be postcard-sized.
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The Guardian -
Filmed with competence rather than actual verve, Alone in Berlin works – just about. There’s enough of a thriller about it to hold the interest, even if it’s a bit on the stodgy side.
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Variety -
Tastefully lit and art-directed throughout, with a somberly mellifluous Alexandre Desplat score to ease it along, this fact-based drama finally cushions its harshest emotional blows, though Brendan Gleeson’s deeply sad, stoic dignity in the lead cuts through some of the padding.
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The A.V. Club -
A lump in the throat inspired by real-life heroism is all that this dour, monotonous drama has to offer. Indeed, it’s easy to guess that the story is fact-based—it’s far too blah to have been invented from scratch.
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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.
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.
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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.