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Phoenix (2014) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Christian Petzold

Written By:
Christian Petzold
Harun Farocki

Actors:
Nina Hoss ..... Nelly Lenz
Ronald Zehrfeld ..... Johannes 'Johnny'
Nina Kunzendorf ..... Lene Winter
Michael Maertens ..... Arzt
Imogen Kogge ..... Elisabeth
Kirsten Block ..... Clubbesitzer
Uwe Preuss ..... Tänzerin
Eva Bay ..... Zigarettenmädchen
Jeff Burrell ..... Mitarbeiterin Zentralstelle
Sofia Exss ..... Frederike
Megan Gay ..... Sigrid
Claudia Geisler-Bading ..... Junge Frau
Daniela Holtz ..... Tänzerin
Max Hopp ..... Soldat an der Brücke
Nikola Kastner ..... Geiger
Valerie Koch ..... Alfred
Trystan Pütter ..... Monika
Felix Römer ..... Walther
Frank Seppeler
Kathrin Wehlisch
Michael Wenninger

Synopsis:

June, 1945. Badly injured, her face destroyed, Auschwitz survivor Nelly returns to her hometown, Berlin. She is accompanied by Lene, an employee of a Jewish agency and Nelly's friend from the pre-war days. Having barely recovered from facial surgery, Nelly ignores Lene's warnings and sets out to find her husband, Johnny - the love of her life who, by refusing to abandon their marriage, protected her from Nazi persecution for so long. Nelly's family has been murdered in the Holocaust. Johnny is convinced that his wife, too, is dead. When Nelly finally tracks him down, he recognizes nothing but an unnerving resemblance and doesn't believe it could really be her. Hoping to secure her family's inheritance, Johnny suggests to Nelly that she take on the identity of his late wife. Nelly agrees: She becomes her own imposter. She wants to know whether Johnny loved her - and whether he betrayed her. Nelly wants her old life back.

Nelly Lenz, a Jewish singer, has survived the Nazi concentration camps but at what cost? She is disfigured and has had to undergo facial surgery. Back in what is left of Berlin, accompanied by her faithful friend Lene, she has only one thing in mind, finding Johnny, her musician husband in the ruins of the city. She wants to know if he still loves her and if he has betrayed her, as Lene claims he has. She does meet him but Johnny does not recognize her. Worse, he asks her to impersonate... Nelly, with a view to grabbing her inheritance.

A disfigured concentration-camp survivor (Nina Hoss), unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband (Ronald Zehrfeld) who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 08 May, 2015.

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