Review of Alone in Berlin (2016) by Malgo S — 28 Mar 2017
The world has been asking the Germans why they supported the Nazis. The Germans honestly answered in the 1947 book by Hans Fallada Jeder stirbt für sich allein. (It was one of a few books in the tiny post-war library of my Polish parents. Primo Levi called it "the greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis"). But the world failed to listen and/or understand. While translated into Russian and Polish before 1950, the English version was produced in 2009, by the Americans, under inadequate title Every Man Dies Alone). So, in Alone in Berlin the Germans are explaining again, trying to make themselves understood by changing the victim from brother to son, and the language from German to English. In vain; the incredibly insensitive incompetence of the world film critics finds the story... boring. The monotony of daily avoidance of terror and death...boring. Banality of Truth.
If you ever asked yourself what it would be like to live in Berlin 1939-1945, Alone in Berlin will tell you.
This review of Alone in Berlin (2016) was written by Malgo S on 28 Mar 2017.
Alone in Berlin has generally received mixed reviews.
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