Everyone Dies Alone

The account is set in Berlin during the war. Otto and Anna Quangel are an ordinary couple. They had taken little interest in politics. Then their son is killed at the front. That news changes them both. Losses grow around them as well. Their neighbours go one by one. The couple set up a quiet resistance. They leave postcards around the city. On the cards are words against the government. Doing it carries the death penalty. The cards are collected and a search begins. The account comes from the novel by Hans Fallada. The novel rests on the story of a real couple. Hildegard Knef and Carl Raddatz take the leads in Alfred Vohrer’s German film of 1976.