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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.

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Reviews

Critic Brian Tallerico

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...resonates long after itsperfect ending. This is a riveting piece of work that never loses sight of itshuman story...

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic David Parkinson

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A gripping study of treachery, identity and survival.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Josh Kupecki

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...mines a Hitchcockian vein, but it is Hoss' sensitive performance and Petzold’s intelligently paced direction that makes this film shine.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Nadia Parbo

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Tyskland tabte krigen, men der var ingen, der vandt.

Read full review at Cinemazone

Critic Kasper Würtz

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...en fortælling om identitetssøgen midt i efterkrigstidens sønderbombede hverdag – ikke blot for den opløste Nelly, men også for en tysk nation, som pludselig fik sin selvforståelse rykket af led.

Read full review at Soundvenue

Critic Kerstin Gezelius

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…har ett briljant manus.

Read full review at Dagens Nyheter

Frequently asked questions

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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

What movies are similar to Phoenix? Toggle content

Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Phoenix include The Normal Heart, Where Hope Grows, Heaven Is for Real, Like Father, Lion, The Master.