TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christian Petzold
AU  - Christian Petzold
AU  - Hubert Monteilhet
AU  - Nina Hoss
AU  - Ronald Zehrfeld
AU  - Nina Kunzendorf
TI  - Phoenix
AV  - PN1997 .P464 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Germany
PB  - Schramm Film Koerner & Weber, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Arte, Tempus
N1  - 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"
N2  - 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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