Summary
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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Cast
Emma Thompson
Anna Quangel
Brendan Gleeson
Otto Quangel
Daniel Brühl
Escherich
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
Jacob Matschenz
Dietrich Necker
Rainer Reiners
Salesman Franz Kanz
Lars Rudolph
Enno Kluge
Uwe Preuss
Persicke
Katharina Abt
Flower Shop lady I. Schneider
Jürgen Tarrach
Richard Schopf
Joshio Marlon
Kuno Barkhausen
Holger Handtke
Dollfuss
Joshua Grothe
August Persicke
Marko Dyrlich
Anselm Koch
Hans Martin Stier
Arnold Vogt
Monique Chaumette
Frau Rosenthal
Imogen Kogge
Frau Busch
Joachim Bißmeier
Herr Fromm
Gisa Flake
Bertha
Katharina Blaschke
Female guard Gertrud Schäfer
Sanne Schnapp
Female Worker Helene Scholz
Daniel Sträßer
Zott
Patrick Hastert
Schröder
Rainer Egger
Emil Barkhausen
Irene Rindje
Miss Kleinschmidt
Katrin Pollitt
Eva Kluge
Sammy Scheuritzel
Baldur Persicke
Emil von Schönfels
Newspaper Boy
Moritz Grove
Young Man who cuts finger
Thomas Neumann
Party Rep. Ludwig Weber
Hans Piesbergen
Joachim Kessel
Thomas Bestvater
Colleague in Tram Karl Ziegler
Fritz Roth
Factory Clerk Max Winkler