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Phoenix

Phoenix

2014, Movie, 1h 38min

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 hometown 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 preposterously 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.

Country: Germany

Director:

Christian Petzold

Cast:

Ronald Zehrfeld,

Nina Kunzendorf,

Trystan Pütter

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A cabaret singer aiming to reclaim her old life after surviving Auschwitz, gets a facial reconstruction surgery which leaves her unrecognizable. She sets out in search of her husband, who doesn't recognize her either. He requests that she impersonate his wife so that he can claim her inheritance, which she agrees with, becoming her own doppelganger

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You can stream Phoenix on: Mubi The Criterion Channel Apple TV Store Amazon Store Amazon Prime ⎥ AMC+

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Phoenix include Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette Tuff Story, The Help, The Short History of the Long Road, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Florida Project, 42.

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Phoenix was released in theaters on July 24, 2015.