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Phoenix [videorecording] / by Böhler, Bettina,editor of moving image work.; Block, Kirsten,actor.; Farocki, Harun,screenwriter.; Fromm, Hans,1961-director of photography.; Hoss, Nina,actor.(CARDINAL)341266; Koerner von Gustorf, Florian,film producer.; Kogge, Imogen,actor.; Kunzendorf, Nina,1971-actor.; Maertens, Michael,1963-actor.; Petzold, Christian,1960-film director,screenwriter.; Weber, Michael,1958-film producer.; Will, Stefan,composer (expression); Zehrfeld, Ronald,1977-actor.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Monteilhet, Hubert.Retour des cendres.; Association relative à la télévision européenne,production company.(CARDINAL)316749; Bayerischer Rundfunk,production company.(CARDINAL)897929; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269; Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,production company.; Schramm Film Koerner & Weber (Firm),production company.; Tempus Film,production company.; Westdeutscher Rundfunk,production company.(CARDINAL)121807;
Director of photography, Hans Fromm ; editor, Bettina Böhler ; music, Stefan Will ; production supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, BKM Kulturelle Filmförderung des Bundes, FFA Filmförderungsanstalt, DFFF Deutscher Filmförderfonds.Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Kirsten Block.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.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements and brief suggestive material.Blu-ray; region A; requires Blu-ray player, widescreen (2.39:1) presentation, 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Film adaptations.; Film noir.; Historical films.; Monteilhet, Hubert; Betrayal; Holocaust survivors; Impersonation; Spouses; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Phoenix [videorecording] / by Petzold, Christian,1960-film director,screenwriter.; Koerner von Gustorf, Florian,film producer.; Weber, Michael,1958-film producer.; Hoss, Nina,actor.(CARDINAL)341266; 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.; Sundance Selects (Firm),presenter.(CARDINAL)340706; Match Factory (Firm),presenter.; Schramm Film Koerner & Weber (Firm),production company.; Tempus Film,production company.; Bayerischer Rundfunk,production company.(CARDINAL)897929; Westdeutscher Rundfunk,production company.(CARDINAL)121807; Arte (Firm),production company.; Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,production company.; Kulturelle Filmförderung des Bundes,production company.; Filmförderungsanstalt (Germany),production company.; Deutscher Filmförderfonds,production company.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269;
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (2.39:1) presentation, 5.1 surround.Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Kirsten Block.Director of photography, Hans Fromm ; editor, Bettina Böhler ; music, Stefan Will.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 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.
Subjects: Feature films.; Film noir.; Fiction films.; World War, 1939-1945; Married people; Betrayal; Holocaust survivors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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