QUEEN OF FASHION BIOPIC TO STAR ANDREA RISBOROUGH, MIRANDA RICHARDSON, RICHARD E. GRANT, JOE COLE, DANE DEHAAN, MICHELLE DOCKERY, EMILY BEECHAM, VINCENT PEREZ

   THE QUEEN OF FASHION  

ISABELLA BLOW BIOPIC ENDS PRODUCTION

As ScreenDaily reports, Alex Marx has finished shooting his Isabella Blow biopic THE QUEEN OF FASHION with Andrea Riseborough in the lead role in the film about the extraordinary life of London-born Blow, known as a visionary fashion editor, muse, and unstoppable force who shaped the fashion industry, surrounded by a constellation of era-defining artists, designers and creatives. Dane DeHaan stars as Blow’s husband, Joe Cole as designer Alexander Lee McQueen. Michelle Dockery is British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman, Emily Beecham is Isabella’s best friend Lucy Birley. Stacy Martin is designer Daphne Guinness, and Ncuti Gatwa fashion designer at Tatler magazine, Michael Roberts. Miranda Richardson and Richard E Grant play Blow’s parents, while Fionn O’Shea and Sebastian De Souza play couture hat designer Philip Treacy and his partner. Vincent Perez also stars.

FELL THE DRAMATIC RHYTHM OF BOLERO IN THE TRAILER FOR MAURICE RAVEL'S MOVIE BIOPIC WITH RAPHAEL PERSONNAZ, VINCENT PEREZ, JEANNE BALIBAR

   RAVEL'S BIOPIC BOLERO  

SEE THE DRAMATIC MOVIE TRAILER

Today I have for you a trailer for Anne Fontaine directed movie starring Raphael Personnaz, Vincent Perez and Jeanne Balibar in a biopic on

Bolero is already out in France and Belgium

Maurice Ravel titled BOLERO. Doria Tillier, Emmanuelle Devos, Suzanne Clement and Sophie Guillemin also star. Netflix will stream the 1928 set film that looks back at the origins of the Bolero, when it was nothing but a simple command made by choreographer Ida Rubinstein to Maurice Ravel. The latter obeys as if a kind of exercise. But as the composition advances the work takes on a wholly unexpected dimension, reminding the musician of his demons but also the wonders he has worked. The movie has launched in France and Belgium March 6th and will move into other European territories this spring. See the trailer below and tell us what you think:

SEE TRAILER FOR HISTORICAL ADVENTURE THE EDGE OF THE BLADE DIRECTED BY VINCENT PEREZ

  THE EDGE OF THE BLADE  

FRENCH HISTORICAL MOVIE TRAILER

Last May I told you that French superstar Vincent Perez is directing a new historical movie and that December 27th has been announced as the release date for historical adventure THE EDGE OF BLADE

The movie is out during the holidays

( Une affaire d'honneur) in which he also stars and now we have the first trailer! 

 

  The story is set in Paris 1887. At that time, only the duel prevailed to defend one's honor. Clément Lacaze (Roschdy Zem), charismatic fencing master finds himself caught in a spiral of destructive violence. He meets Marie-Rose Astié (Doria Tillier), a feminist ahead of her time, and decides to teach her the complex art of dueling. They will face provocations and unite to defend their respective honor. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:

 

VINCENT PEREZ TO LEAD EDGE OF THE BLADE 19TH CENTURY HISTORICAL ADVENTURE! 1ST RAPHAEL PERSONNAZ PIC AS RAVEL IN BOLERO PERIOD SET BIOPIC!

   THE EDGE OF THE BLADE  

VINCENT PEREZ EPIC MOVIE

Vincent Perez also directs the movie

We are still in France, people, as both with the sales over at Cannes and their own announced projects they have a lot for us period set drama lovers! December 27th has been announced as the release date for historical adventure THE EDGE OF BLADE ( Une affaire d'honneur) which is both directed by Vincent Peres and has him in the cast! The story is set in Paris 1887. At that time, only the duel prevailed to defend one's honor. Clément Lacaze, charismatic fencing master finds himself caught in a spiral of destructive violence. He meets Marie-Rose Astié, a feminist ahead of her time, and decides to teach her the complex art of dueling. They will face provocations and unite to defend their respective honor.

  FIRST BOLERO PICTURE

Speaking of Vincent Perez, I have first image from another historical movie in which he also stars: BOLERO from Anne Fontaine, starring Raphael Personnaz as famous composer Maurice Ravel! The movie, set in the roaring 1920s, follows the boundary-pushing Russian dancer and choreographer Ida Rubinstein (Jeanne Balibar) as she selects Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.

RUPERT PENRY JONES, IWAN RHEON JOIN THOSE ABOUT TO DIE ROMAN GLADIATOR EPIC SERIES! VINCENT CASSEL, LOUIS GARREL, DIANE KRUGER TO LEAD SAINT EX PERIOD SET DRAMA ON SAINT EXUPERY! RAPHAEL PERSONNAZ, VINCENT PEREZ TO LEAD MAURICE RAVEL BIOPIC BOLERO!

  THOSE ABOUT TO DIE 

EPIC SERIES ADS NEW CAST

And what a cast it is shaping up to be: joining previously announced Anthony Hopkins as the Roman emperor and Tom Hughes as his son, in Peacock's THOSE ABOUT TO DIE series set in the complex and corrupt world of ancient Rome’s gladiatorial competition, are Iwan Rheon, who

Iwan Rheon and Rupert Penry Jones have joined the cast

replaces Lorenzo Richelmy as ambitious crime boss Tenax, Liraz Charhi as Berenice, queen of the conquered Judea’s held captive in Rome, Johannes Haukur Johannesson as imposing Norse gladiator Viggo and Rupert Penry-Jones as Marsus, a wealthy patrician and retired general who desire’s

Liraz Charhi and Pepe Barroso will also star in the series

the throne. Eneko Sagardoy, Pepe Barroso and Goncalo Almeida will play the Corsi brothers, while Kyshan Wilson is female gladiator in training Aura. Alicia Edogamhe plays a slave who is sold to Marsus and Antonia (Gabriella Pession). Roland Emmerich is directing.

  VINCENT CASSEL TO LEAD  

SAINT EX MOVIE WITH LOUIS GARREL AND DIANE KRUGER

After our spotlight on the Musketeers yesterday, we are staying in France today as well since Vincent Cassel, Louis Garrel and Diane Kruger have been cast in StudioCanal's SAINT EX period set drama movie. Set in 1930 it centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Argentina. When his best friend who happens to be Airmail’s best pilot Henri Guillaumet disappears in the Andes, Saint-Ex decides to set out in search of him, against all odds. This impossible quest forces him to push beyond his limits, turning his capacity to dream into his greatest strength.

   RAVEL'S BIOPIC BOLERO  

SETS MAIN MOVIE CAST

CineEuropa reports that Anne Fontaine has cast Raphael Personnaz, Vincent Perez and Jeanne Balibar in her biopic on Maurice Ravel titled BOLERO. Doria Tillier, Emmanuelle Devos, Suzanne Clement and Sophie Guillemin will also star. Netflix will stream the film that looks back at the origins of the Bolero, when it was nothing but a simple command made by choreographer Ida Rubinstein to Maurice Ravel. The latter obeys as if a kind of exercise. But as the composition advances the work takes on a wholly unexpected dimension, reminding the musician of his demons but also the wonders he has worked...

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S EXTENSIVE SPOTLIGHT ON PERIOD SET MOVIES TO EXPECT FROM FRANCE: HISTORICAL FILMS FROM HUGO BECKER, ISABELLE HUPPERT, VINCENT PERES!

  PERIOD SET FILMS  

TO EXPECT FROM FRANCE 

Hollywood Spy is bringing you web's most extensive spotlight on all the period set movies we can expect from France, starting with A MASTER OF ARMS (Maître d’armes) which will be directed by Vincent Peres who is also directing. Paris, 1887. In a rapidly changing society, where dueling is the

Vincent Peres will star and direct

last way out to uphold one's honour, Clément Lacaze, charismatic fencing master, and Marie-Rose Astié de Valsayre, a feminist ahead of her time, will fight side by side, ignoring the threats and dangers that await them. Roschdy Zem, Doria Tillier and Denis Podalydès also star. 

 

MADAME DE SEVIGNE

With Karin Viard in the title role, it will also star Ana Girardot, Cédric Kahn, and Noémie Lvovsky. In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman, in her image. But the more she tries to have a hold on the destiny of the young woman, the more she alienates her. Mother and daughter then experience the pangs of a singular and devastating passion. From this devastation will be born a major work of French literature.

 

THE SHADOW OF CARAVAGGIO

Directed by Michele Placido, this co production between France and Italy will also star Riccardo Scamarcio, Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert. Italy, in 1600. The adventurous life of the great 16th century Italian painter, Caravaggio. A disturbing figure is responsible for investigating the latter because his art is deemed subversive.

 

THE LAST QUEEN 

aka La Dernière reine will star Adila Bendimerad, Dali Benssalah, Tahar Zaoui! Year is 1516, Legend says that the King of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbarossa arrives to liberate the city from the Spaniards, he is determined to conquer Zaphira as well as the kingdom itself. But is Zaphira ready to let him or is she plotting for herself?

 

POMARE, LAST QUEEN OF TAHITI

aka Pomaré, la dernière reine de Tahiti will star Tuheï Adams, Alexia Barlier, Bernard Le Coq and Terence Telle. In the kingdom of the lagoons where custom dictates that only men can become kings young Aïmata Pomare will break this law. Faced with the hostility of her peers, threatened by the greed of England and France, Aïmata, a young Tahitian princess, will try to save her traditions and her people in order to offer her a destiny. This is how she will become the last queen of Tahiti and make peace with France. 

 

THE FURCY SLAVE AFFAIR

aka L'Affaire de l’esclave Furcy will be an adaptation of Mohammed Aïssaoui's novel. It will tell  the true story of Furcy, a slave on a plantation on

Riccardo Scamarcio

Bourbon Island (Reunion), who decided in October 1817 to take his master to court to demand his freedom. After many twists and turns, this affair which lasted more than twenty years will find its denouement in Paris in 1843 at the Royal Cessation Court.

 

CONCE- SSION

aka La Concession by director Aurelia Raoull. 1867. Charlotte is part of a convoy of women sent to New Caledonia to populate this new French colony. While this 17-year-old orphan is won over by the Kanak spirits of Caledonian land, she revolts against her husband and the colonial system...

 

WIN OR DIE

Also known as VAINCRE OU MOURIR has already been shot and is currently in the process of post production which means we can show you the first photos from this historical war movie directed together by Paul Mignot and Vincent Mottez and a rather strong cast of French superstars led by Hugo Becker, Gregory Fitoussi, Jonathan Demurger, Jean Hugues Anglade and Rod Paradot. To be distributed by our favourite StudioCanal, this historical action war movie should troop into cinemas sometime next year.

  THE STORY OF WIN OR DIE

follows the adventures of Charette (played here by French star Hugo Becker), naval officer, winner of the American War of Independence, who sees his life changed in 1793 when he engages in a final fight for freedom. François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (2 May 1763 – 29 March 1796) was a Breton Royalist soldier and politician. He served in the French Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and was one of the leaders of the Revolt in the Vendée against the revolutionary regime during which the peasant fighters asked Charette to be their leader. During the very brutal war in which republicans massacred many people, he won numerous battles but was captured and executed when he was just 32.

STUNNING TRAILER AND CHARACTER POSTERS FOR EPIC ADVENTURE MOVIE ADAPTATION OF PUCCINI'S TURANDOT WITH DYLAN SPROUSE, VINCENT PEREZ, SOPHIE MARCEAU!

TURANDOT MOVIE ADAPTATION

Turandot should arrive this year

STUNNING FIRST EPIC MOVIE TRAILER IS HERE

Your trusted spy was the first one to inform you that China was turning Giacomo Puccini's TURANDOT opera into a film starring Guan Xiaotong and Dylan Sprouse and now we are also among the first ones to present you with the first trailer and character posters for this extravaganza of an action adventure film! The movie, which was produced under the helm of  Xiaolong Zheng, also stars legendary French stars Sophie Marceau and Vincent Perez alongside Asian stars Hu Jun, Collin Chou and Lin Siyi! The film which was shot back in 2018 had its world premiere over at Shanghai

Vincent Perez and Sophie Marceau also star in the film

International Film Festival back in June, but does not still have an official release date in China nor rest of the world. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

TURANDOT EPIC ADVENTURE

a fantasy romance, follows Princess Turandot (Guan Xiaotong), who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that

Xialong Zheng directed the epic fantasy adventure

were given to her as birthday gifts. The life draining effects of the bracelets cause the princess to become cruel, and gradually she loses her humanity.

The film is based on one of Puccini's most famous operas

Foreign princes who come to court her must solve three riddles, one for each bracelet, and only then will she be freed from the power of the bracelets. In the event any of the questions is answered incorrectly, the attempted solver would

Turandot was shot back in 2018 and then went into postproduction

be put to death. One day, Calaf (Dylan Sprouse), an ordinary citizen, risks his life to answer the riddles to save her and inadvertently uncovers his own extraordinary past.

1ST PHOTOS FROM PERIOD SET MOVIES 'AN OFFICER AND A SPY' WITH JEAN DUJARDIN, VINCENT PEREZ, WW2 SET 'LYREBIRD' WITH GUY PEARCE, CLAES BANG

1ST 'LYREBIRD' PHOTO

ARRIVES FROM WW2 HOLLAND

Photos from two war dramas for you today: the first one is LYREBIRD in which Claes Bang plays Joseph Piller, a soldier and member of the Dutch resistance who is tasked with investigating stolen art in the wake of World War II. His focus is on the flamboyant painter Han van Meegeren (Guy

Lyrebird has premiered this week, yesterday, at Toronto Film Festival

Pearce), who allegedly sold a Vermeer to Hermann Goring. Selling stolen art to the Nazis is a crime punishable by death. After fighting in the Dutch Resistance, Joseph would seem to have little reason to sympathize with an artist known for hosting hedonistic soirees and cozying up to Nazi leaders. But helped by his bright assistant (Vicky Krieps), he peels away layers of damning evidence to be sure van Meegeren gets a fair trial, convinced there is more to the artist than his flamboyant facade.

'AN OFFICER AND A SPY' 

WITH FRENCH ACTING ROYALTY

There are also first photos for 19th century French language drama AN OFFICER AND A SPY (J'accuse) which boasts a cast led by Oscar winner Jean Dujardin alongside Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner,

The film is directed by famous Roman Polanski

Mathieu Almaric and Vincent Perez. The movie which has just won the grand jury prize at Venice Film Festival, is this year's movie with the biggest budget in France. Based on a Robert Harris novel, it tells the true story of

Jean Dujardin plays the lead role

counter espionage officer Georges Picquart (Dujardin), who defied orders and embarked on a compromising mission to clear the name of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (Garrel), a promising French Jewish officer who was unfairly accused

The movie is based on a Robert Harris historical novel

of spying for Germany and imprisoned on Devil’s Island in the late 1890s. Drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption, Picquart eventually succeeded in getting Dreyfus exonerated of any wrongdoing years later.

EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES SOAR THE SKIES IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR AERONAUTS HOT BALLOON 19TH CENTURY ADVENTURE!

      'AERONAUTS' TRAILER TAKES 

EDDIE REDMAYNE TO THE SKIES

It is one of the films that will hit both this year's London film festival and the one in Toronto, Tom Harper's skyfaring adventure AERONAUTS which has just set flight to its first trailer. Eddie Redmayne plays famous

Aeronauts is directed by Tom Harper

meteorologist James Glaisher at the end of the 19th century, while Felicity Jones is Amelia Wren, his fiercely loyal copilot who harbours a penchant for science as much as she does being a showgirl. Inspired by the story of Glashier’s 1862 excursion with fellow aeronaut Henry Coxwell (whom Wren replaces in the film), the movie, as EW reports, charts the pair’s dangerous mission to study the earth’s natural patterns from the sky as they attempt to travel higher than any human before them in a massive hot air balloon — an event Wren clearly wants to publicize as a meeting of science and spectacle to generate interest in their work, while the no-nonsense Glaishier anchors his

The film will have a limited cinema releases to get in the awards race

approach in curmudgeonly determination. Tom Courtenay, Vincent Perez and Anne Reid also star in the film that hits theatres December 6th ahead of the awards season and then streams on Amazon Prime December 20th.

FRENCH MONDAY: L'INTERVENTION ACTION THRILLER TRAILER WITH OLGA KURYLENKO, VINCENT PEREZ! A MERMAID IN PARIS ROMANTIC FANTASY POSTER WITH CLEMENCE POESY, VIRGINIE LEDOYEN

'A MERMAID IN PARIS'

FIRST POSTER REVEALED!

While Hollywood is resting from their wild Golden Globe parties, the spy is taking you across the pond (many Globes did go across the pond last night -

Mermaid is set to start shooting this spring

mostly to Britain, bravo to Richard Madden) straight to France.

The first, rather atmospheric, poster has been revealed for A MERMAID IN PARIS (Une Sirene a Paris) which will see Reda Kateb playing Gaspard, a man who has gone through breakups and believes he has no more love to give. One day, he crosses paths with an injured mermaid, Lula (Clemence Poesy), by the Seine in Paris and takes her home to heal in his bathtub, but learns that any man who falls in love with her dies. Initially immune to her endearing charm, Gaspard slowly falls in love with Lula, who also truly falls for him. Also starring Virginie Ledoyen, the movie will shoot next spring.

'L'INTERVENTION' TRAILER

SENDS OLGA KURYLENKO AND VINCENT PEREZ TO DJIBOUTI

Already ready to hit cinemas at the end of this month is Fred Grivois' drama L'INTERVENTION toplined by our favourite Olga Kurylenko and

L'Intervention is out in French cinemas January 30th

Vincent Perez! In February 1976 in Djibouti, a school bus was taken hostage at the Somali border. The Elite Gendarmerie GIGN is sent on the spot, after 30 hours of tension a rescue operation is organized. 

1ST PHOTOS ARE IN FROM MOVIE ADAPTATION OF PUCCINI'S 'TURANDOT' WITH DYLAN SPROUSE, SOPHIE MARCEAU, VINCENT PEREZ! GAL GADOT TO EXPERIENCE 'DEATH ON THE NILE' WITH KENNETH BRANAGH!

  1ST 'TURANDOT' PHOTOS FROM

 PUCCINI'S EPIC ADAPTATION

Earlier this year, your trusted spy was the first one to inform you that China was turning Giacomo Puccini's TURANDOT opera into a film starring

Dylan Sprouse plays the lead male role

Guan Xiaotong and Dylan Sprouse and now we have the first photos! The movie, which finished shooting under the helm of  Xiaolong Zheng, will also star French stars Sophie Marceau and Vincent Perez alongside Asian stars Hu Jun, Collin Chou and Lin Siyi!

TURANDOT a fantasy romance, follows Princess Turandot (Guan Xiaotong), who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that were given to her as birthday gifts. The life draining effects of the bracelets cause the princess to become cruel, and gradually she loses her humanity. Foreign

The movie was shot in English and Mandarin

princes who come to court her must solve three riddles, one for each bracelet, and only then will she be freed from the power of the bracelets. In the event any of the questions is answered incorrectly, the attempted solver would be

The film does not yet have a release date!

put to death. One day, Calaf (Dylan Sprouse), an ordinary citizen, risks his life to answer the riddles to save her and inadvertently uncovers his own extraordinary past.

  GAL GADOT JOINS

BRANAGH'S 'DEATH ON THE NILE'

Gal Gadot will play a rich heiress on the cruise

As much as I wanted to love it, Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express was a ghastly bore for me, but it does not mean the new film in the series won't be better. As 'Deadline' reports, Gal Gadot has just joined him in his new adaptation of DEATH ON THE NILE in which, beside directing, he will again play Hercule Poirot. The writer is, sadly, the same as in Orient Express, but unlike that one, where a murder happened on a train, in this one Poirot is investigating a murder on a boat. Gal Gadot will be rich heiress Linnet Ridgeway Doyle who was enjoying that luxurious cruise when the murder happened only to continue again when the suspects start dying one by one.The movie should be out for New Year's Eve 2019! Just a month before that you will be watching Gadot in Wonder Woman sequel.

DELIGHTFUL POSTERS AND TRAILERS FOR 'DEAD IN A WEEK OR YOUR MONEY BACK' WITH TOM WILKINSON, ANEURIN BARNARD, 'LADIES IN BLACK' WITH JULIA ORMOND, VINCENT PEREZ, RYAN CORR

 'DEAD IN A WEEK'

OR TOM WILKINSON WILL GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK!

Edinburgh Film Festival will air the film this June

New posters for two delightful new movies! We still don't have a trailer for DEAD IN A WEEK: OR YOUR MONEY BACK, but here's a delightful poster for it featuring its two lead stars Tom Wilkinson and Aneurin Barnard.

The comedy, out October, sees Barnard playing a young man who, after his ninth unsuccessful attempt on his own life, outsources his suicide to an ageing assassin played by legendary Tom Wilkinson, because "If you're serious about ending it, you need professional help"! This crazy comedy from Tom Edmunds also stars Christopher Eccleston and Freya Mavor.

 'LADIES IN BLACK'

JULIA ORMOND & VINCENT PEREZ

The film is based on Madeleine St John novel

There is also a trailer and a poster for Australian comedy, and they do have the best of films, LADIES IN BLACK set in Sydney in the summer of 1959, against the backdrop of Australia's cultural awakening, breakdown of class structures, and liberation of women. Starring Rachael Taylor, Julia Ormond, Vincent Perez, Ryan Corr, it tells the coming of age story of suburban schoolgirl Lisa, who while waiting for her final high school exam results with dreams of going to the University of Sydney, takes a summer job at a large department store. Here she works side-by-side with a group of saleswomen who open her eyes to a world beyond her sheltered existence, and foster her metamorphosis. 

DELIGHTFUL 'THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC' ROMANTIC MOVIE TRAILER WITH JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY, JEREMY IRVINE, TOM WILKINSON! 'ALONE IN BERLIN' WW2 TRAILER WITH EMMA THOMPSON, BRENDAN GLEESON

'THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC' 

TRAILER WITH JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY AND JEREMY IRVINE

The only thing I have for you to cheer up the boring Monday today is the first trailer for delightfully lovely romantic British drama THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC which should enchant cinemas later this year with lovely Jessica Brown Findlay, dashing Jeremy Irvine and acting legend Tom Wilkinson leading the cast!

THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC is a contemporary fairy tale revolving around the most unlikely of friendships between a reclusive, agoraphobic young woman (Jessica Brown Findlay) with dreams of being a children’s book author and a curmudgeonly old widower (Tom Wilkinson), set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London. Bella Brown is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children’s book. Despite her abandonment as a child, the all consuming OCD, the unfulfilled dream, her awful boss at the library and her paralysing fear of flora and fauna, Bella is down but not out. She has a spark, an edge, a talent and a voice that we can feel from the get go. This girl has a preternatural survival instinct, having been found in the middle of winter in the middle of Hyde Park as a babe. When Bella is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her nemesis, match and mentor in Alfie Stephenson, a cantankerous, loveless, rich old man who lives next door and is an amazing horticulturist.

'ALONE IN BERLIN' TRAILER

WITH EMMA THOMPSON AND BRENDAN GLEESON
A lot more gloomy is the first trailer for World War II drama ALONE IN BERLIN which arrives next month directed by French actor Vincent Perez and starring Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson and Daniel Bruhl.

Based on a true story, which served as an inspiration for Hans Fallada novel, ALONE IN BERLIN is set in 1940 following a working class couple in World War II era Berlin, Otto and Anna Quangel, who decide to resist Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, after receiving the news of the death of their only son. They start writing postcards to urge people to stand against Hitler and the Nazis and protest against them. Escherich is the Gestapo inspector charged with finding the source of the postcards.