Alone in Berlin
Description
Berlin, 1940. Working class couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their only son has lost his life in the battlefield and decide to resist the Nazi regime in their very own way.Additional Information
THU JULY 20 – 7:00
FRI JULY 21 – 9:00
SAT JULY 22– 7:00
SUN JULY 23 – 2:30
(UK/FRANCE/GERMANY, 2016 103 MIN.) STC
Dir. Vincent Perez
“True story: in the heady early days of the Second World War in Germany, a quiet, cautious working-class couple mounted a discreet, doomed campaign of resistance against the Nazis. It involved anonymous postcards, left at random Berlin locations, with messages that denounced Hitler. The story was fictionalized in the 1947 German novel Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada, and now again in the dour war drama Alone in Berlin. Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson are the middle-aged couple Anna and Otto, each of them grieving in their own way over the death of their son in the French campaign…Alone in Berlin is a modest, hard-faced film, offering a nervous study of humanity and civil disobedience in a societalbullying era. Its intentions are commendable and its photography is fine-looking, but the drama is as low-key as the couple’s small, symbolic insurgence.” -The Globe & Mail
When
Jul 23 2017, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Where
Film Theatre,
Series/Genre
Upcoming