cottage. As Ranenau tells Irena that there will indeed be war she goes to Dr Roder to warn him that the Gestapo are coming to the cottage. But the doctor sets up the transmitter in the back of a van. Irena joins him. The Gestapo close in and locate the van. They fire a machine gun into the van killing the doctor but not before he broadcasts their plan to invade Poland. As he is killed, first Irena takes over the broadcast, then, when she is killed, others in the group broadcast that good people were murdered that day, but that they will continue to broadcast the truth. Cast Clive Brook as Dr. Karl Roder Diana Wynyard as Irena Roder Raymond Huntley as Rabenau Derek Farr as Hans Glaser Joyce Howard as Elly Schmidt Howard Marion-Crawford as Kummer John Penrose as Otto Morland Graham as Father Landbach Ronald Squire as Rudolf Spiedler Reginald Beckwith as Fenner Clifford Evans as Dressler Bernard Miles as Captain Müller S Gibb McLaughlin as Dr Weiner Muriel George as Hanna Martita Hunt as Frau Lehmann - Concierge Hay Petrie as Sebastian Manning Whiley as SS Trooper Katie Johnson as Granny Schmidt George Hayes as Policeman Everley Gregg as Maria Tattenheim Marie Ault as Old Woman Customer Abraham Sofaer as Heini Joan Hickson as Katie Pat McGrath as Kurt Wyndham Milligan as SS Guard Bunty Payne as Ema William Hartnell as Radio Operator Critical reception The New York Times critic wrote that "this is a frankly propagandistic drama...The admirable emotional restraint which went into the making of several of the better British war films seen here in the past year is sadly lacking." Sky Movies called the film, "gripping, strongly cast and more subtle than most propaganda thrillers of its time...And film buffs may spot Katie Johnson, later to win fame in The Ladykillers but here, 13 years earlier, already in granny roles!" Wolfgang Gans zu Putlitz, German diplomat operating for British intelligence, recalls in his autobiography working on the film as a consultant at Shepperton in the winter of 1939–40. External links Freedom Calling! The Story Of The Secret German Radio German Peoples Radio - Wikipedia References 1941 films British World War II propaganda films Two Cities Films films Films directed by Anthony Asquith Films with screenplays by Anatole de Grunwald Columbia Pictures films Films shot at Shepperton Studios Films set in Berlin British war