Phoenix
(2016, original release: 2014)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/GERMAN/PHOENIX

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/FOREIGN/GERMAN/PHOENIX Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet

ISBN/ISSN
9781681431390 CC2614DDVD, 1681431394, 715515174619
LANGUAGE
German
NOTES

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2014

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

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

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