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Phoenix [digital videodisc] / Sundance Selects and the Match Factory present ; a Schramm Film Koerner & Weber production ; in cooperation with Tempus Film ; in coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Arte ; production supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, BKM Kulturelle Filmförderung des Bundes, FFA Filmförderungsanstalt, DFFF Deutscher Filmförderfonds ; a film by Christian Petzold ; producers, Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber ; written and directed by Christian Petzold.

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

World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin -- Drama.

Married people -- Drama.

Betrayal -- Drama.

Holocaust survivors -- Drama.

Criterion collection 809.

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

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.

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