Synopsis
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
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Cast
- Keira KnightleyRachael Morgan
- Alexander SkarsgårdStefan Lubert
- Jason ClarkeLewis Morgan
- Martin CompstonBurnham
- Kate PhillipsSusan Burnham
- Flora ThiemannFreda Lubert
- Jannik SchümannAlbert
- Fionn O'SheaBarker
- Anna SchimrigkHeike
- Alexander ScheerSiegfried Leitmann
Recommendations
- 60
Screen Daily
The Aftermath works best when looking at the bewildered people who have been left behind, literally, to pick up the pieces. The savage loss of family members still reverberates through empty rooms and ruined landscapes. - 60
Variety
The result is attractive and diverting, as any well-appointed film starring these actors in mouthwatering period finery could hardly fail to be — though for a story about people rebuilding their lives through grievous personal loss and moral torment, it’s hard not to wonder if its vast reserves of enviable knitwear are counting for more than they should. - 60
Empire
The bones of the story have been played a million times, but a talented and committed cast make this swoonsome rather than samey. - 58
IndieWire
None of the pretty imagery or impassioned lovemaking can break free of a mopey old formula that sits on every scene with the same schematic quality that makes its weary setting so familiar from the start. - 42
The Playlist
The Aftermath is simply another period melodrama that knows exactly what it is, and that just isn’t quite enough, especially when one considers the leading star’s career oeuvre. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Where it might have been an old-fashioned melodrama with credible historical appeal, instead it suggests an old-school celluloid epic whose print has lost a reel or two. - 40
The Guardian
It is more of a holiday romance and the well-intentioned performances lead nowhere. - 40
The Telegraph
Unlike certain past ventures of Knightley’s, there’s little or no sense of us being given a Big Performance, and she’s often rather moving as a result.
