The thing you’ve been searching for your whole life has been staring you straight in the face. Or at least, there’s a similar lesson to be taken from Phoenix, the astonishing new film from Christian Petzold that frequently makes jaw-dropping…
The thing you’ve been searching for your whole life has been staring you straight in the face. Or at least, there’s a similar lesson to be taken from Phoenix, the astonishing new film from Christian Petzold that frequently makes jaw-dropping observations on human nature.
The Second World War has come to an end, but not without leaving its scars first; Nina Hoss plays Nelly, who has survived a Nazi concentration camp only to return home with severe facial disfigurement. Following…
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A disfigured concentration-camp survivor (Nina Hoss), unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband (Ronald Zehrfeld) who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
A disfigured concentration-camp survivor (Nina Hoss), unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband (Ronald Zehrfeld) who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
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