There have been five screen adaptations of the novel : '' Jeder stirbt für sich allein '' , directed by Falk Harnack in West Germany in 1962 ; a television miniseries directed by Hans-Joachim Kasprzik and produced by DEFA in East Germany in 1970 ; a film version directed by Alfred Vohrer in 1975 , released in English as '' Everyone Dies Alone '' in 1976 , , in which Hildegard Knef , who won the award for best actress at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival , portrayed " Anna Quangel " . It was made into a three-part television miniseries in the Czech Republic in 2004 , directed by . A 2016 film '' Alone in Berlin '' , starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson as Anna and Otto , was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival
66th Berlin International Film Festival
66th Berlin International Film Festival
Otto and Elise Hampel