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Everyone Dies Alone (1976)

Everyone Dies Alone poster
Original title
Jeder stirbt für sich allein
Directed by
Alfred Vohrer
Genre
drama film, war film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
16
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married couple in Nazi Germany quietly resist the regime by leaving handwritten cards around Berlin. They are eventually caught and face execution.

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What happens

Everyone Dies Alone / Alone in Berlin (Original title: Jeder stirbt für sich allein) is a 1976 West German drama film adapted from the Hans Fallada novel Every Man Dies Alone. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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