Phoenix
DVD - 2016
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 performer, 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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- Genres
- Feature films
Film noir
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection
[2016]
- Language
- German
English - Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- DVD special edition ; DVD edition
- Item Description
- Title from title frame.
Based on 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 "Phoenix" 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. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (98 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC; region 1, widescreen (2.39:1) presentation, 5.1 surround.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements and brief suggestive material.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Hans Fromm ; editor, Bettina Böhler ; production design, K.D. Gruber ; costume design, Anette Guther ; music, Stefan Will.
- ISBN
- 9781681431390
Contents unavailable.
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