Berlinale Film Festival: Recounting The Horrors And Scars Left By Wars
by The Daily Eye Team February 17 2016, 3:51 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 37 secsCan any nation ever put behind the memories of a war? The scars that are engraved on the soul, and the soil, are perhaps the hardest to get rid of.
In Germany, it is not just any war. It is the second world war. The Holocaust. And how the hubris of one man led to death and devastation on an unimaginable scale, and how the world changed.
In Alone In Berlin, Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson play a middle-aged German couple, stunned into grief at the news of an only son being slain on the front.It is 1940. WWII is only a year old, and all over Germany, the SS is rising, pushing everyone out of the way.