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Title: Alone in Berlin (2016)
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Emma Thompson | ... | Anna Quangel | |
| Brendan Gleeson | ... | Otto Quangel | |
| Daniel Brühl | ... | Escherich | |
| Mikael Persbrandt | ... | SS Officer Prall | |
| Louis Hofmann | ... | Hans Quangel | |
| Katharina Schüttler | ... | Claire Gehrich | |
| Jacob Matschenz | ... | Dietrich Necker | |
| Uwe Preuss | ... | Persicke | |
| Godehard Giese | ... | Colonel Krüger | |
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Ernst Stötzner | ... | Dptm. Head Walter |
| Joshua Grothe | ... | August Persicke | |
| Hildegard Schroedter | ... | Ida Kuhn | |
| Lars Rudolph | ... | Enno Kluge | |
| Holger Handtke | ... | Dollfuss | |
| Rafael Gareisen | ... | Herbert Wegner | |
In 1940, German soldier Hans Quangel (Louis Hofmann) is killed in action during the French campaign. His parents, Otto (Brendan Gleeson) and Anna (Dame Emma Thompson), are devastated by the loss and their bereavement is unmollified by the joyful hysteria at Germany's victory. Deciding that Führer Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime are responsible for this tragedy and much more, Otto cannot stand by any longer. As such, Otto begins to create handwritten cards denouncing the regime's abuses and lies, which he secretly deposits throughout Berlin while a disillusioned Anna insists on helping him. As the subversive cards pile up over the years, Police Detective Escherich (Daniel Brühl) is tasked to track down the leafleteer while being pressured by his increasingly impatient S.S. superior for an arrest for this "treason", regardless of actual guilt. As the stakes rise even as Nazi Germany's day of reckoning approaches, Otto and Anna are determined to spread the truth regardless of the odds, ... Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
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This brilliantly cast and acted film earns an excellent cinema manifestation because it's an impressive and important war experience story focused on two ordinary people in an inner city we all know will soon be torn apart as the war in Berlin ravages onto a bitter end.
Otto and Anna deserve the full focus of this film, which intimately and convincingly lets us into their lives, and brings out the tenacious courage of two ordinary Berliners,persevering in their personal vendetta against the monstrous war machine, pursuing at great personal risk their resistance against the hideous Nazi regime.
Alone in Berlin fully succeeds in conveying the ingrained personal pain turned into anger over the loss of the couple's son, and the acting of Emma Thompson and Brendon Gleeson brilliantly fulfils our expectations. A personal Nazi resistance story very well told that makes for highly recommended and compelling viewing.