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Phoenix / Sundance Selects and the Match Factory presents ; a Schramm Film Koerner & Weber production ; in cooperation with Tempus Film ; in coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Arte ; production supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, BKM Kulturelle Filmförderung des Bundes, FFA Filmförderungsanstalt, DFFF Deutscher Filmförderfonds ; a film by Christian Petzold ; producers, Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber ; written and directed by Christian Petzold.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2614DDVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: German Original language: German Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 809.Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]Description: 1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681431390
  • 1681431394
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Hans Fromm ; editor, Bettina Böhler ; music, Stefan Will.
Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Kirsten Block.Summary: 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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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD WORLD Phoenix Available 33111008654069
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (2.39:1) presentation, 5.1 surround.

German dialogue; English subtitles.

Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Kirsten Block.

Director of photography, Hans Fromm ; editor, Bettina Böhler ; music, Stefan Will.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2014.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements and brief suggestive material.

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.

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.

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