Jeder stirbt für sich allein
Alone in Berlin- Director
- Vincent Perez
- Country
- Germany, France, United kingdom
- Year
- 2016
- Genre
- Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Achim von Borries and Vincent Perez. From a novel by Hans Fallada
- Cast
- Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl, Mikael Persbrandt, Monique Chaumette
- Production
- X-Filme Creative Pool, FilmWave, Master Movies
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.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Berlin International Film Festival 2016
Competition
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2016
Call number EACEA 27/2014
Media support 12.000,00 €
Company who received the MEDIA support:
FILMLADEN FILMVERLEIH GMBH (AT)
Distribution:
Pathé Distribution ()
