Freedom Radio

Dr. Roder is a physician to important Nazi party members, living a luxurious life with his wife Irena. They host a party as tension in Vienna grows and the Gestapo call Dr. Roder away, hinting at the peril surrounding them.

At his club, the main servitor Sebastian announces the club's closure, underscoring the climate of fear as several friends have already been taken away for ‘questioning’. Roder's anxiety grows as the net tightens around dissenters. The party atmosphere turns tense with the ever-present threat of secrecy and surveillance.

Irena's performance draws admiration from high ranks, and Adolf Hitler is said to have admired her. She is offered a post in Berlin as Reich Director of Popular Pageantry, signaling a dramatic personal and political shift. The couple's world begins to drift toward separate destinies.

In the church, a priest’s deposition triggers an attack by SS officers, including Otto. The priest is killed, and the press releases blame the congregation, showing the regime's manipulation of truth. The atmosphere of fear intensifies for Roder and those around him.

Hans Glaser seeks a radio sales license, and Dr. Roder pledges to help. He informs his fiancée Elly, who runs a newspaper stall despite frequent confiscations, that they will try to spread information through a secret broadcast. The seeds of an underground press and radio network are planted.

A neighbour reports Frau Schmidt for listening to French broadcasts, leading the SS to smash her radio and arrest her granddaughter Elly. Elly is interrogated and assaulted, but Irena intervenes and demands Elly's protection and care, even as the regime condemns dissidents. The incident foreshadows the looming collapse of normalcy.

Dr. Roder criticizes the Nazi party as a cancer, widening the rift with his wife. She leaves him to stay in Stuttgart as the regime tightens its grip, and the marriage begins to unravel under pressure, fear, and suspicion. The couple's bond erodes as politics encroach on personal life.

Roder and Hans set up a secret radio in a basement under a toy shop, smuggling parts in through repaired toys. They recruit a growing network of helpers, including Fenner, to broadcast anti-Nazi messages. The clandestine operation quietly takes shape, giving voice to the dissenters.

The 'Freedom Station' begins transmitting anti-Nazi messages at 26.9, with broadcasts every evening at 10:30 pm. The broadcasts condemn Hitler and pray for a better Germany, even as the regime tries to jam and suppress them. An accidental public instruction to not listen only spreads the reach of the station.

Captain Muller and his superiors discuss how triangulation could locate the signal, while they blame Goebbels for the jamming that makes tracing difficult. The anti-Nazi radio network grows more sophisticated as authorities close in. The doctor’s voice is even turned into a gramophone record to broadcast while he publicly denies being the broadcaster.

Rudolf and his network receive a coded message confirming that Germany will invade Poland on the following Friday. The threat of war looms larger as the broadcast war intensifies. The group uses the information to time their next bold move.

The group discovers Hitler will make a major broadcast from a stadium and Hans rigs a bypass to broadcast their message instead. Irena oversees pageantry for the rally, sitting with Rabenau, as Hitler begins to speak and the feed oddly switches to the dissenting voice. Hans nearly gets caught but escapes with Fenner's help, who sacrifices himself to buy Hans time.

The Gestapo close in on the group, but the broadcast continues from other locations as the truth is shared that good people were murdered that day. Dr. Roder is killed when the Gestapo fire on the transmitter van, and Irena takes over the broadcast before also being killed, ensuring the message endures through others.