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# Phoenix [DVD]

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## Description

June, 1945. Badly injured, her face destroyed, Auschwitz survivor Nelly returns to Berlin. Having barely recovered from facial surgery, she sets out to find her husband Johnny. Nelly’s family has been murdered in the Holocaust - Johnny is convinced that his wife, too, is dead. When Nelly finally tracks him down he doesn’t recognise her, but seeing a resemblance Johnny asks her to take on the identity of his ‘late’ wife in order to access her inherited fortune. Nelly agrees: she becomes her own imposter. She wants to know if he loved her – and whether he betrayed her. She wants her old life back.

Review: One of my favourite films now - Brilliant! some of the family thoughjt it was a bit slow - I felt it was just right to build the tension. Amazing ending
Review: " Tomorrow is near, and always too soon " (Weill) - Nina Hoss and Christian Peltzer have pulled off another double act, one as director of award winning films and the other as a woman as the agent of change in the rubble of post-war Berlin. In his previous two films with Hoss, Yella and Barbara, Peltzer has covered the split between east and west Germany, and crossing from one to the other side. This one deals with guilt ,redemption,identity and betrayal, in the reconstruction of a woman’s face and psychic renewal, as survivor of a concentration camp,come out of the land of the dead, who passes through a land of noirish shadows and deathly nights, to find out whether love exists or has been betrayed. Hoss’s bandaged up face shows Kelly barely exists for the 1st twenty minutes, like a pale,shadowy chimera,tentatively stepping forward out of a trauma beyond all conception. The film’s glory is in adumbrating this negative capability, into one of nebulous possibility. This recalls Eyes without a Face. The next part when she comes forth from the bandages,recalls Vertigo, in her man’s attempt to model her into a likeness of his wife in order to gain her inheritance that he’s not entitled to. Kunzendorf is great a tragic friend. Germans have congregated in the Phoenix nightclub where American soldiers gather,casting off their own language, identities and songs, for the American ones on offer.Nelly goes to find her lost love and husband, Johnny( Zehrfeld). He sees a woman he could mould into a passing resemblance of his wife, so he has her live with him, and he shows Nelly’s old things like lip-stick, letters ,dress. Lene ( Kunzendorf) is Nelly’s friend and wants to go with her to Haifa in Palestine. She knows Johnny betrayed her and divorced her on the day she was arrested, but Nelly’s love is strong at 1st as she gives Johnny a chance as they rehearse her role as Nelly, how she should act and behave. She knows Johnny is her husband, he seems blind of her being Nelly, until the Kurt Weill song she sings while all their friends are gathered. This film is dense with deep emotions of the guilt of Germans in post-war Germany, the remaking of Germany, the attitude of Germans to returning Jews, exploring the lives and emotions of Jews in post war Germany trying to reclaim their lost monies and contemplating where to spend their future lives. The film’s final scene is filled with such resonance and power before it fades. Masterly restraint in the telling,as if to echo Weill’s Speak Low. The period detail is meticulous, the cinematography to channel artifice out of trauma.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B00OG482TM |
| Actors  | Imogen Kogge, Michael Maertens, Nina Hoss, Nina Kunzendorf, Ronald Zehrfeld |
| Aspect Ratio  | 16:9 - 1.78:1 |
| Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (275) |
| Director  | Christian Petzold |
| Is discontinued by manufacturer  | No |
| Language  | German (Dolby Digital 2.0), German (Dolby Digital 5.1) |
| Media Format  | PAL |
| Number of discs  | 1 |
| Producers  | Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber |
| Product Dimensions  | 19 x 13.59 x 1.57 cm; 60 g |
| Rated  | Suitable for 12 years and over |
| Release date  | 31 Aug. 2015 |
| Run time  | 1 hour and 38 minutes |
| Studio  | SODA Pictures |
| Subtitles:  | English |
| Writers  | Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki |

## Product Details

- **Format:** PAL
- **Genre:** Cry
- **Language:** English, German
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 38 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of my favourite films now
*by D***O on 16 November 2025*

Brilliant! some of the family thoughjt it was a bit slow - I felt it was just right to build the tension. Amazing ending

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ " Tomorrow is near, and always too soon " (Weill)
*by T***Y on 30 December 2015*

Nina Hoss and Christian Peltzer have pulled off another double act, one as director of award winning films and the other as a woman as the agent of change in the rubble of post-war Berlin. In his previous two films with Hoss, Yella and Barbara, Peltzer has covered the split between east and west Germany, and crossing from one to the other side. This one deals with guilt ,redemption,identity and betrayal, in the reconstruction of a woman’s face and psychic renewal, as survivor of a concentration camp,come out of the land of the dead, who passes through a land of noirish shadows and deathly nights, to find out whether love exists or has been betrayed. Hoss’s bandaged up face shows Kelly barely exists for the 1st twenty minutes, like a pale,shadowy chimera,tentatively stepping forward out of a trauma beyond all conception. The film’s glory is in adumbrating this negative capability, into one of nebulous possibility. This recalls Eyes without a Face. The next part when she comes forth from the bandages,recalls Vertigo, in her man’s attempt to model her into a likeness of his wife in order to gain her inheritance that he’s not entitled to. Kunzendorf is great a tragic friend. Germans have congregated in the Phoenix nightclub where American soldiers gather,casting off their own language, identities and songs, for the American ones on offer.Nelly goes to find her lost love and husband, Johnny( Zehrfeld). He sees a woman he could mould into a passing resemblance of his wife, so he has her live with him, and he shows Nelly’s old things like lip-stick, letters ,dress. Lene ( Kunzendorf) is Nelly’s friend and wants to go with her to Haifa in Palestine. She knows Johnny betrayed her and divorced her on the day she was arrested, but Nelly’s love is strong at 1st as she gives Johnny a chance as they rehearse her role as Nelly, how she should act and behave. She knows Johnny is her husband, he seems blind of her being Nelly, until the Kurt Weill song she sings while all their friends are gathered. This film is dense with deep emotions of the guilt of Germans in post-war Germany, the remaking of Germany, the attitude of Germans to returning Jews, exploring the lives and emotions of Jews in post war Germany trying to reclaim their lost monies and contemplating where to spend their future lives. The film’s final scene is filled with such resonance and power before it fades. Masterly restraint in the telling,as if to echo Weill’s Speak Low. The period detail is meticulous, the cinematography to channel artifice out of trauma.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A deeply moving and personal view of the aftermath of World War II.
*by T***. on 3 November 2015*

Phoenix is a powerful film which makes all of its points, some of which are quite painful, in the most understated way possible. The homage to Alfred Hitchcock is simple and free of irony or self-reference. The plot has been discussed in numerous reviews so I will not review it here. Suffice it to say that Nina Hoss is totally convincing as Nelly, a survivor of Auschwitz. The film begins shortly after the Allied victory, in a Europe which is filled with people on the move. Displaced persons, concentration camp survivors, and Nazis fleeing Germany are on the roads and military checkpoints can hardly tell one group from another. We first meet Nelly at one such checkpoint as she is being transported to a hospital where she will receive plastic surgery to her disfiguring facial wounds. Everyone at the checkpoint is weary, suspicious and frightened. A soldier orders Nelly to remove the bandage from her ravaged face, and then, embarrassed and somewhat sheepish, lets her pass. No scenes of battle, no desperate gunfights, no tank warfare. Just weariness, and this tells the story of what came before better than any cinematic visual flashbacks ever could. At the start of the film Nelly is deeply scarred both physically and emotionally, and we learn that she sustained herself through the unimaginable humiliation and suffering of the camps by remembering a past that never was, and dreaming of a future that never could be. The horrors of that life are made real to us, not by brutal dramatization, but by almost gentle understatement. Just as Primo Levi's soft, introspective prose proved more powerful in condemning Nazi inhumanity than the most graphic journalism, director Christian Petzold's intensely personal film leaves the viewer deeply moved. By limiting his study to a few individuals affected irreversibly by their war-related experiences he tells us more about the Holocaust than I ever thought possible.

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