Bibliograph

Phoenix, director, Christian Petzold

Type

Label

Phoenix, director, Christian Petzold

Language

ger

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements and brief suggestive material

Main title

Phoenix

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

944455152

Responsibility statement

director, Christian Petzold

Runtime

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 809

Summary

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

Technique

live action

Classification