In wartime Berlin (1942), Hilde Coppi, a young medical assistant, joins the anti-Nazi “Red Orchestra,” falls deeply in love with fellow resistor Hans, and endures a harrowing pregnancy and imprisonment after their arrest by the Gestapo. Through flashbacks contrasting her brief bliss and grim reality, the film reveals her quiet courage, maternal strength, and defiant spirit in the face of execution.
Strong sex, nudity, upsetting scenes, brief violence