GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - On Wednesday evening, September 6, the John Rupert Theatre in Graaff-Reinet will screen the film, Alone in Berlin.

This period drama is set in Nazi Germany and is based on the post-war novel by Hans Fallada and based on a true-life case.

Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson play Otto and Anna Quangel, a middle-aged couple in Berlin in 1940. Hating the Nazis and galvanised by grief and rage at the loss of their son in battle, they embark on tiny but very dangerous acts of resistance: leaving anonymous anti-Hitler postcards in stairwells and public places – a capital crime. 

Daniel Brühl plays the police inspector on their trail, using flags on a city map showing the whereabouts of cards handed in to the authorities to calculate where the culprit might live.

Part of the story’s potency lies in the fact that this is a kind of resistance that anyone can imagine carrying out, however timid, however lonely, however secretly convinced that its effects are likely to be minimal – but also that it requires the weird tenacity and organisation of a serial killer.

The film will be screened at 7pm, with the doors to the theatre opening at 6.30pm. Tickets, at R25 each, will be available at the door.

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