Phoenix Christian Petzold [videorecording]=

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Christian Petzold

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TextLanguage: German Summary language: English Original language: German Subtitle language: English Series: The Criterion Collection ; Vol. 809 | PhoenixPublication details: Germany Schramm Film Koerner & Weber Bayerischer Rundfunk Westdeutscher Rundfunk Arte Tempus 2014Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inLOC classification:

PN1997 .P464 2014

Summary: From case cover: This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945 is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish-German identity. After surviving the Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer (Nina Hoss, in a dazzling, multilayered performance) has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged home city to seek out 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 is as richly metaphorical as it is engrossing. Revenge film or tale of romantic reconciliation? One doesn't know until the superb closing scene of this marvel from Christian Petzold, one of the most important figures in contemporary German cinema.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-D: DVD Cabinet D	PN1997 .P464 2014	Available	German audio with English subtitles.		002043

Contains the following:
- Main feature: "Phoenix" (2014).
- Documentaires: "The Making of "Phoenix"" (2014).

Based on the 1961 novel "Le Retour des cendres" by "Hubert Monteilhet".

From case cover:
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945 is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish-German identity. After surviving the Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer (Nina Hoss, in a dazzling, multilayered performance) has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged home city to seek out 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 is as richly metaphorical as it is engrossing. Revenge film or tale of romantic reconciliation? One doesn't know until the superb closing scene of this marvel from Christian Petzold, one of the most important figures in contemporary German cinema.

DVD video;Dolby Digital 5.1; surround; NTSC; Region 1; 2.39:1 as 16:9 widescreen.

German audio with English subtitles.

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