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Alone in Berlin
Directed by
Vincent Perez
R
2016
1h 43m
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6.5
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6.7
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After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.
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Cast of Alone in Berlin
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
Chris Theisinger
SS / SD Sturmführer
Holger Handtke
Dollfuss
Joshua Grothe
August Persicke
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Alone in Berlin Ratings & Reviews
Vague Visages
Jordan Brooks
An overlong melodramatic exercise in aridity.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Naturally Gleeson and Thompson portray their working-class German characters as sober, sexless, and socially conservative.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
When Alone in Berlin reaches the end of its journey, it's the performances of Gleeson and Thompson that ensure we'll never forget the bravery of Otto and Anna.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
Dignified to the point of absurdity, this fact-based dud never gets off the ground, thanks to director Vincent Perez's failure to create - let alone maintain - any level of suspense.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
A well-acted but creaky and curiously bloodless portrait of life during wartime from the Swiss-born actor turned director Vincent Prez.
Observer
Rex Reed
The splendid actors ... make up for the weaknesses with performances that radiate strength and integrity.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
This handsomely mounted and well-acted World War II drama lacks the narrative urgency to match its heartfelt sincerity.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A mildly gripping, pedestrian thriller elevated by terrific performances by the always-reliable Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson and by the inspirational story of two ordinary citizens who bravely refused to remain Good Germans.
Epoch Times
Joe Bendel
It is a fine film worthy of your attention.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
"Alone in Berlin" proceeds like a train crossing a plain. Without twists or turns, hills or valleys, its dramatic engine chugs reliably forward, delivering its cargo of World War II tragedy with bland efficiency.
NPR
Scott Tobias
Perez's Berlin is too art-house-handsome, too committed to the look and feel of conventionally well-appointed historical drama.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
A lump in the throat inspired by real-life heroism is all that this dour, monotonous drama has to offer.
Film Journal International
Simi Horwitz
Awash in unrealized potential.
Village Voice
Abbey Bender
While Alone in Berlin may at times come off as too understated (Otto and Anna are rather opaque characters), it makes for a fairly engaging exploration of how one lives day to day in the face of historical horror.
Slant Magazine
Keith Watson
The film attempts a tone of tragic understatement that registers instead as flat, plodding, and underfelt.
Counterpunch.org
Louis Proyect
Ignore the "Rottens", at least if you are a politically aware person eager to see how people of conscience dared to throw a monkey-wrench in the Nazi machine.
Christianity Today
Alissa Wilkinson
I blinked madly, willing myself to stay awake, chewing gum, rubbing a knot in my shoulder, annoying the guy sitting next to me.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
Caught between intentions that are all good but directly oppositional, "Alone in Berlin" becomes a hard sell: a film too perfunctory to be embraced by arthouses, and too damn depressing to be a mainstream proposition.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Finally cushions its harshest emotional blows, though Brendan Gleeson's deeply sad, stoic dignity in the lead cuts through some of the padding.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
Handsomely packaged, the film unfortunately is also too well-behaved and lacking in psychological depth to really set itself apart from countless other WWII dramas theatrically, even if pockets of older audiences might be responsive.
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