PHOENIX
synopsis
Nelly Lenz is a concentration camp survivor who has been left severely injured with a disfigured face. Lene Winter, who works for the Jewish Agency, takes her to Berlin. Following facial re- construction surgery, Nelly begins the search for her husband Johnny. When she finally does find him, Johnny does not recognise her. Nevertheless he approaches her with a proposal. Since she resembles his wife, whom he believes to be dead, he asks her to help him claim his wife's considerable inheritance. Nelly agrees, and becomes her own doppelganger - she needs to know if Johnny ever loved her, or if he betrayed her. Nelly wants her life back. The more similarities to her dead counterpart she reveals, the more desperate and confusing their relationship becomes. Will Johnny confess his love? Or his guilt?
international title: | Phoenix |
original title: | Phoenix |
country: | Germany |
sales agent: | The Match Factory |
year: | 2014 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Christian Petzold |
film run: | 98' |
release date: | DE 25/09/2014, FR 26/01/2015, IT 19/02/2015, BE 11/03/2015, SE 21/08/2015 |
screenplay: | Christian Petzold |
cast: | Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Michael Maertens, Nina Kunzendorf, Uwe Preuss, Eva Bay |
cinematography by: | Hans Fromm |
art director: | Merlin Ortner |
costumes designer: | Anette Guther |
music: | Stefan Will |
producer: | Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber |
production: | Schramm Film Koerner & Weber |
distributor: | Piffl Medien Filmverleih, Diaphana Distribution, A-Film België NV, Asociatia Culturala Macondo, Folkets Bio |