PHOENIX [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 2014
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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 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 her 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.;
• Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Felix Römer, Uwe Preuss, Valerie Neuenfels, Eva Bay, Jeff Burrell, Nikola Kastner, Max Hopp, Megan Gay, Kirsten Block, Frank Seppeler, Daniela Holtz, Kathrin Wehlisch, Michael Wenninger, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Sofia Exss, Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet
• Director: Christian Petzold
• Runtime: 1:38
• Company: Piffl Medien GmbH, Schramm Film Koerner & Weber GmbH, Tempus Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), ARTE (Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH, Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Sundance Selects, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie