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Phoenix
2014 1h 38m Christian Petzold

Phoenix

★ 7.3 IMDb
Music & Musical Romance Drama History Made in Europe
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer 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.
Writers Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet, Christian Petzold
Cast Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter
DP Hans Fromm
Music Stefan Will
Essays and Criticism
On this film
Phoenix by Jonathan Murray, Cineaste A Shadow Out of the Past by Paulo Portugal, FIPRESCI The Face of Another: Christian Petzold’s Phoenix by Adam Nayman, Cinema Scope
On Christian Petzold
The Cinema of Identification Gets on my Nerves by Marco Abel, Cineaste Christian Petzold’s Material Symbolism by Bart Versteirt, photogénie
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