A Woman in Berlin
World War II ends and her story begins...
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Strand Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nina Hoss & Evgeny Sidikhin | |
Performer: | Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Rolf Kanies, Jördis Triebel, Roman Gribkov & Samvel Muzhikyan | |
Directed by | Max Färberböck | |
Composition by | Zbigniew Preisner | |
Produced by | Gunter Rohrbach |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
That rarest of wartime dramas: an intimate, sorrowful glimpse into the heart and loins of the hellish aftermath of war.
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Austin Chronicle
Rating: 3/4 --
A story that is not often heard, and Faerberboeck treats it honorably with this restrained and respectful film.
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From the Front Row
Rating: 3/5 --
An honourable effort to illustrate a period in post-war German history that remained conveniently shrouded for years.
London Evening Standard
Rating: 2.5/4 --
It's a rigorous adaptation, handsomely mounted and with fine performances, but totally impersonal.
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Combustible Celluloid
The suffering of these Berlin women, however tragic, is decontextualized from the infinitely greater crimes against humanity's millions by Germany at the time, which in fact was responsible for their fate.
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NewsBlaze
Rating: 5/5 --
[A] brutal, unforgettable film.
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Los Angeles Times
[T]his powerfully told, devastating film....Everything you want in adult narrative cinema: It's intelligent, provocative and intensely dramatic.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
AIMEE & JAGUAR’s Max Faerberboeck directs this gripping drama set in the days after Russia’s invasion of Berlin in 1945. Anonyma (Nina Hoss, YELLA) is surrounded by women, children, and men too weak or old to fight in the war, and there is no one to defend her from the ravenous appetites of the invading army. After she and many of the women around her are raped, Anonyma picks Russian soldier Andrej (Evgeny Sidikhin) to be her protector, and they come to a compromise: if she has sex with him, he will keep her from his fellow men. Anonyma and Andrej embark on a strange relationship, and despite the appearance of affection, there is never any doubt of their positions in the world and the war. Based on an international bestseller, A WOMAN IN BERLIN also stars Irm Hermann, Rudiger Vogler, and Juliane Koehler.