Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
The truth was their resistance.
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.
Berlin International Film Festival 2016
Cast: Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl, Mikael Persbrandt, Katharina Schüttler, Louis Hofmann, Rafael Gareisen, Hildegard Schroedter, Ernst Stötzner, Godehard Giese, Jacob Matschenz, Rainer Reiners, Lars Rudolph, Uwe Preuss, Katharina Abt, Jürgen Tarrach, Joshio Marlon, Chris Theisinger, Holger Handtke, Joshua Grothe
Writers: Hans Fallada (Novel), Achim von Borries (Screenplay)
Cinematographer: Christophe Beaucarne
Production Designer: Anja Müller, Jean-Vincent Puzos
Editor: François Gédigier
Sound Designer: Robert Ireland, Lee Herrick
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Costume Designer: Nicole Fischnaller
Direction team: Nancy Rivas (Script Supervisor), Arndt Wiegering (First Assistant Director)
Producers: Michael Scheel, Peter Hampden, Alison Thompson
Production: X Filme Creative Pool, Master Movies, FilmWave, Pathé
