- 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 perfromer, 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.
- Series
- The Criterion collection ; 809
Criterion collection ; 809.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin
- Other Authors/Editors
- Petzold, Christian, 1960- film director, screenwriter.
Koerner von Gustorf, Florian, film producer.
Weber, Michael, 1958- film producer.
Hoss, Nina, actor.
Zehrfeld, Ronald, 1977- actor.
Kunzendorf, Nina, 1971- actor.
Maertens, Michael, 1963- actor.
Kogge, Imogen, actor.
Block, Kirsten, actor.
Fromm, Hans, 1961- cinematographer.
Böhler, Bettina, film editor.
Will, Stefan, composer.
- Notes
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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 "Phonenix" 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.
Director of photography, Hans Fromm ; editor, Bettina Böhler ; music, Stefan Will.
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Kirsten Block.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements and brief suggestive material.
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (2.39:1) presentation, 5.1 surround.
German dialogue; English subtitles.
