Alone in Berlin France, Germany, UK 2016 – 103min.

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Alone in Berlin

Movie Rating: Geoffrey Crété

Berlin, 1940. The city is paralyzed by fear. The working class couple Otto and Anna Quangel live in a modest neighborhood where, like the rest of the population, they try to keep a low profile in the face of the Nazi party. But when they learn that their only son was killed at the front, they decide to join the resistance. They begin by placing anonymous messages criticizing Hitler throughout the city, while an inspector of the Gestapo begins to actively seek them with increasingly fierce determination...

The Second World War has been filmed in a thousand ways in a plethora of movies, a good part of which are quite disposable. Alone in Berlin also ranks in that category, as its story of bereaved and resistant parents hardly tells anything new or in-depth. Although the actor and director Vincent Perez has managed to get the excellent Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson for this project, the result, a timid melodrama and spy thriller, floats along without passion. It’s neither awful nor badly done, but neither is it all that memorable.

07.12.2016

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