His resistance movement started quietly. When 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener’s (Ewan Horrocks) Jewish friend disappeared at the hands of German Nazis, he began listening to banned short-wave radio stations at low volume after dark.

The foreign news radio provided answers about Hübener’s missing friend that he urgently craved. Broadcasters illustrated an oppressive Nazi Germany radically different from the one previously presented to him. He was convinced the Nazi regime was racist — and losing the war.

An enlightened Hübener decided his fellow Germans, particularly his close friends, were entitled to the truth.

Using a borrowed typewriter from his workplace, Hübener launched an anonymous resistance campaign, writing and printing leaflets exposing the regime’s lies and challenging its propa

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