Description |
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical 5.1 surround rda |
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widescreen (2.39:1) rda |
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video file Blu-Ray region A rda |
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Motion picture |
Series |
Criterion collection ; 809 |
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Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 809.
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System Details |
Blu-ray, region A, 2.39:1 aspect ratio ; 5.1 surround; requires Blu-ray player. |
Language |
German dialogue; English subtitles. |
Cast |
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf. |
Note |
Widescreen. |
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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. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 2014. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements and brief suggestive material. |
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. |
Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Married people -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Betrayal -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Holocaust survivors -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Genre |
Feature films.
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Film noir.
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Fiction films.
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Foreign films, German.
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Blu-ray discs.
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Added Author |
Petzold, Christian, 1960- film director.
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Hoss, Nina, actor.
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Zehrfeld, Ronald, 1977- actor.
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Kunzendorf, Nina, 1971- actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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ISBN |
9781681431383 |
Standard No. |
715515174510 |
Music No. |
CC2613BD The Criterion Collection |
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