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This film touches us so closely and personally and shows that for so many of us human beings in a harsh urban world in the pursuit of our self awareness and the search for our own identity we have such little control over own destiny and for so many it is impossible to get out of the rut.

The hand-held camera work in many settings and the slowness of the indoor scenes makes the audience come close to the characters. However, there's one shortcoming. At least for Australian audiences the dialogue deserved to have been subtitled as it was very difficult at times to follow what was being said. I do not wish to draw on this but if the European film public gets subtitles, some other English speaking countries deserve so too. A very well scripted film and we should have been able to clearly understand every word of it.

This brilliantly cast and acted film earns an excellent cinema manifestation because it's an impressive and important war experience story focused on two ordinary people in an inner city we all know will soon be torn apart as the war in Berlin ravages onto a bitter end.

Otto and Anna deserve the full focus of this film, which intimately and convincingly lets us into their lives, and brings out the tenacious courage of two ordinary Berliners,persevering in their personal vendetta against the monstrous war machine, pursuing at great personal risk their resistance against the hideous Nazi regime.

Alone in Berlin fully succeeds in conveying the ingrained personal pain turned into anger over the loss of the couple's son, and the acting of Emma Thompson and Brendon Gleeson brilliantly fulfils our expectations. A personal Nazi resistance story very well told that makes for highly recommended and compelling viewing.

This is a beautiful film and its sad but yet uplifting story of asylum seeking engaged me compellingly from its very first frame, deeply reaching in a series of thoughtfully cut scenes, constantly keeping our attention and involvement inquisitively. Nothing in this film's portrayal is superfluous. The acting is strong and the film is superbly cast and extraordinarily well edited. In 85 minutes a deeply meaningful and humane story unfolds. A revealing insight to the seeking of and longing for compassion and a new life by two human souls, who meet in a suspended no-man's land, in which they come together through the experience of different but also sharing human circumstances.