Phoenix

Edition no. 809

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Sundance Selects
Directed by: Christian Petzold
This evocative and haunting drama, set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post–World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer (Nina Hoss, in a dazzling, multilayered performance), her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story that’s as richly metaphorical as it is preposterously engrossing. Revenge film or tale of romantic reconciliation? One doesn’t know until the superb closing scene of this marvel from Christian Petzold, perhaps the most important figure in contemporary German cinema.

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Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
Audio: German 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
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Subtitles: English
Region: 1
Discs: 1 Disc |  DVD-9

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