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Everyone Dies Alone is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Alfred Vohrer with Hildegard Knef
Everyone Dies Alone (1976)
Jeder stirbt für sich allein
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Add to a movie listEveryone Dies Alone (Original title: Jeder stirbt für sich allein) is a German film produced and released in West Germany in 1975, adapted from the Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone. It was released in English in 1976. The book was based on the story of two ordinary Germans, Otto and Elise Hampel, who committed acts of civil disobedience against the Third Reich, were caught and sentenced to death.
Synopsis
The film takes place in Berlin in 1940, during World War II as Adolf Hitler is at the height of his power. Anna and Otto Quangel, a working class couple, live in Berlin in simple circumstances and are not particularly interested in politics. Then, their only son is killed in action during the Battle of France and as they grieve for their son, the desire to resist the Nazi regime grows within them. When a Jewish neighbor is also killed, Anna decides to actively join the German Resistance. She begins writing very personal flyers on postcards, which she at first alone, and then with her husband, leaves in public places and slips into mailboxes. The two are discovered and are arrested and eventually sentenced to death. Otto Quangel commits suicide in the courtroom with a cyanide pill; his wife is executed two months later.Actors
Hildegard Knef
(Anna Quangel)
Carl Raddatz
(Otto Quangel)
Peter Matić
(Enno Kluge)
Heinz Reincke
(Emil Borkhausen)
Alexander Radszun
(Otti Quangel)
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