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Phoenix [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Christian Petzold.

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Criterion Collection, [2016].

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Drama.

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

Marriage -- Drama.

Holocaust survivors -- Drama.

Crimes against humanity -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 809.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (98 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

Based on the motifs from the novel "Le retour des cendres" by Hubert Monteilhet.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2014.

Special features: 2K digital transfer ; new conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss ; new interview with cinematographer, Hans Fromm ; The making of "Phoenix" a 2014 documentary featuring interviews with Petzold, Hoss, actors Nina Kunzendorf and Ronald Zehrfield and production designer K.D. Gruber ; trailer ; PLUS: an essay by critic Michael Koresky.

A Germany/Poland co-production.

In German with optional English subtitles.

Sundance Selects and the Match Factory presents ; 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.

Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge and Kirsten Block.

"This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish-German identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer (Nina Hoss, in a dazzling, multilayered performance) has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown 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 is as richly metaphorical as it is preposterously engrossing. Revenge film or tale of romantic reconciliation? One doesn't know until the superb closing scene of this marvel from Christian Petzold, one of the most important figure in contemporary German cinema."--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Monteilhet, Hubert. Retour des cendres. English.

Petzold, Christian, 1960-

Zehrfeld, Ronald, 1977-

Maertens, Michael, 1963-

Block, Kirsten.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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