Phoenix / Sundance Selects and the Match Factory presents ; a Schramm Film Koerner & Weber production ; in cooperation with Tempus Film ; in coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Arte ; a film by Christian Petzold ; producers, Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber ; written by Christian Petzold in collaboration with Harun Farocki ; directed by Christian Petzold.
Based on motifs fom the novel, "le Retour des cendres", by Hubert Monteilhet. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2014. Special features: new conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss; new interview with cinematographer, Hans Fromm; The making of "Phonenix" a 2014 documentary featuring interviews with Petzold, Hoss, actors Nina Kunzendorf and Ronald Zehrfield and production designer K.D. Gruber; trailer; essay by critic Michael Koresky. Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Kirsten Block.
Summary:
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 perfromer, 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.
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