While Vincent Perez’s “Alone in Berlin,” about a German couple who lose their only son at the front in 1940 and begin writing postcards as a form of resistance against the Nazi regime, may at first ...

Alone in Berlin subtly tells a true story of life during wartime, leaving the frontlines for the trenches of domestic suffering. While not the most formally adventurous or action-packed picture, it is ...

In 1940, German soldier Hans Quangel (Louis Hofmann) is killed in action during the French campaign. His parents, Otto (Brendan Gleeson) and Anna (Dame Emma Thompson), are devastated by the loss and ...

Set in 1940, the play is a gripping portrait of life in wartime Berlin and a vividly theatrical study of how paranoia can warp a society gripped by the fear of the night-time knock on the door. Based ...