The read
A Balasaur Score of 61 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 58%, Metacritic 52/100. Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do. Streaming on Paramount+.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do.
411 audience votes
Key crew
- Achim von BorriesScreenplay
- Vincent PerezDirector
- Alexandre DesplatOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Emma ThompsonAnna Quangel
- Brendan GleesonOtto Quangel
- Daniel BrühlEscherich
- Mikael PersbrandtPrall
- Katharina SchüttlerClaire Gehrich
- Louis HofmannHans Quangel
- Rafael GareisenHerbert Wegner
- Hildegard SchroedterIda Kuhn
- Ernst StötznerDptm. Head Walter
- Godehard GieseColonel Krüger
- Jacob MatschenzDietrich Necker
- Rainer ReinersSalesman Franz Kanz
