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.
Emma Thompson
as Anna Quangel
Brendan Gleeson
as Otto Quangel
Daniel Brühl
as Escherich
Mikael Persbrandt
as Prall
Katharina Schüttler
as Claire Gehrich
Louis Hofmann
as Hans Quangel
Rafael Gareisen
as Herbert Wegner
Hildegard Schroedter
as Ida Kuhn
Ernst Stötzner
as Dptm. Head Walter
Godehard Giese
as Colonel Krüger
Jacob Matschenz
as Dietrich Necker
Rainer Reiners
as Salesman Franz Kanz
