In the new film Alone In Berlin, based on Hans Fallada's beloved but once-banned novel, Emma Thompson plays Anna Quangel.Real-life Otto and Elise Hampel were executed in 1943 for their acts of ...

Alone in Berlin first appeared immediately after the end of WWII. It was the last work from German author Hans Fallada before he died, and one of the first post-war anti-Nazi tracts to come from the ...

Based on Hans Fallada's bestselling 1947 book Every Man Dies Alone, director Vincent Perez's Alone in Berlin should crackle with paranoia and suspense, as Otto and Anna, a comfortable couple of ...

Alone in Berlin is an exhausting book, gruesome and harrowing, but as morally powerful as anything I’ve ever read. Alone in Berlin. by Hans Fallada. tr by Michael Hofmann. 608pp, Penguin, £20.

While the book had been previously adapted for West German television, the process of securing the film rights to the novel dragged on and on, ... *Alone In Berlin arrives in cinemas on 30 June.

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada is a fic­tional book, based on a true story, describ­ing the life in Ger­many under the Third Reich. The book's title in the U.S. is Every Man Dies Alone. Otto ...

But “Alone in Berlin” is ultimately hobbled by its own cinematic inertia, its inability to reimagine the past with the kind of intensity that would also speak to the present.-----‘Alone in ...

The book has been adapted several times for television and screen, including by Alfred Vohrer in Everyone Dies Alone (1975). Alone in Berlin will be the first English-language adaptation of the ...

Berlin Film Festival competition drama-thriller Alone In Berlin has been acquired by Altitude and Picturehouse for distribution in the UK. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD.

Hans Fallada’s “Every Man Dies Alone.” This is the one ... Sven Regener’s “Berlin Blues.” One of the funniest German books ever, it explores what it was like to live in Berlin after ...

A simple act of defiance against the Nazi regime inspired German author Hans Fallada to write the novel Every Man Dies Alone. The themes of Fallada's novel resonated and adaptations of the book were ...