DVD
3 of 3 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
- EASTWOOD: Audiovisual Collection
- WASHINGTON SQUARE: Audiovisual Collection
Phoenix
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN, EAS, WSQ)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In German, with English subtitles.
Performers
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Kirsten Block, Nina Kunzendorf.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements and brief suggestive material.
Summary
Rubble-strewn Berlin, 1945. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer, has her face disfigured and reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged home city to seek out her 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 engrossing.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on motifs from the novel Le retour des cendres by Hubert Monteilhet.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2014.
Special features: 2K digital transformation ; 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 ; new English subtitle translation.