BErlino, summer ’42
Type: dramatic, biographical ✦✦ 1/2
Director: Andreas Dresen. With Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann, Lisa Wagner, Alexander Scheer
The history of the Rote Kapelle, the Red Orchestra, seen through the gaze of the shy Hilde (Liv Lisa Fries, from the series Babylon Berlin) which, in the summer of the first Nazi defeats, joins the dissident group more for love (of the communist Hans Coppi) than for political conviction.
More cultured, smarter, more courageous than the militants, he participates as a flanking one in their missions: billboards, leaflets, sending letters to the families of the soldiers of the Wehrmacht prisoners in Russia and – we learn from the son of the son, Hans Coppi Jr, born in prison, raised by the grandparents and then became a historian – a single harmless radio message of greetings delivered to Moscow.
Johannes Hegemann and Liv Lisa Fries in the film “Berlin, Summer ’42” (© Frederic_batier / Pandor Film Produkzion).
The story of an idyll lived on the shore of a lake and a magnificent illusion of youth. Austere yet moving, in competition to the last Berlinal.
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