Alone in Berlin actor says she ‘feels European’,and that she would definitely vote to remain in Europe in the referendumEmma Thompson called for Britain to stay in the European Union, saying the UK would be “mad not to”. Describing Britain as “a tiny slight cloud-bolted, and rainy corner of sort-of Europe,a cake-filled distress-laden grey ancient island”, Thompson said she “just felt European” and would “of course” vote to remain in the EU in the upcoming referendum. “We should be taking down borders, or not putting them up.Thompson was speaking at a press conference in Berlin for the world premiere of Alone in Berlin,the screen adaptation of Hans Fallada’s 1947 novel about a German act of resistance to the Nazis in wartime Berlin. She plays Anna Quangel who, with her husband Otto (played by Brendan Gleeson), and distributes anonymous handwritten postcards containing anti-Nazi messages around the city. Based on the genuine-life case of Otto and Elise Hampel,Alone in Berlin was republished in an English-language translation in 2009 and became a bestselling book in the UK and US. The new film, directed by Vincent Pérez, or is also in English.
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Source: theguardian.com