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Woman in Berlin, A
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | War
Written by: Max Färberböck
Directed by: Max Färberböck
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 17, 2009
Running Time: 131 minutes, Color
Origin: Germany | Poland
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Nina Hoss, Evgeny Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Rolf Kanies, Jördis Triebel, and Roman Gribkov
Set in 1945 during the Red Army invasion of Berlin. Women are victims of rape and devastation; one of them is Anonyma , who had been a journalist and photographer. In her desperation, she decides to look for an officer who can protect her. She meets a Russian officer Andrej - an encounter which develops into a complex symbiotic relationship that forces them to remain enemies until the bitter end. (Strand Releasing)
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
That the film manages to be understated, calm and intelligent in spite of its wrenching subject matter is perhaps its most impressive accomplishment. In avoiding sensationalism, it feels very close to the truth.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
It's intelligent, provocative and intensely dramatic. Its subject matter may be tough but it is as powerfully authentic as anyone could want.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A distinctive achievement, a World War II movie unlike any other and one of the few films ever to address a topic that makes almost everyone want to look away: What happens to women in wartime.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ella Taylor
One of the best of a new breed of indigenous movies prying open the Pandora's box of German suffering in World War II, A Woman in Berlin takes on the mass rape of German women by victorious Russian soldiers entering the country in 1945.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
A Woman in Berlin, which is based on an anonymously written memoir of the same name, serves also as a testimony to women who put men in their place.
Read Full Review >NPR Mark Jenkins
A Woman in Berlin doesn't justify retribution, but in such moments it does clarify the horrible logic of vengeance.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Anonyma stands out in A Woman in Berlin not only because of her ragged nobility but also because, alas, Färberböck has surrounded her with a gaggle of Berliners who seem right out of Central Casting.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
Like "The Reader," this film treads unsteadily over the terrain of German guilt.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
Director Max Farberbock (Aimee & Jaguar) mainly avoids graphic depictions of sexual assault, but that only increases the tension in this austere, claustrophobic drama.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Peter Brunette
The film ends up relying on stating a basic situation over and over rather than developing any sort of dramatic story concerning recognizable human beings, at least until things get moving a little faster in its second hour.
Read Full Review >Variety Eddie Cockrell
A stately, intermittently gripping, ultimately overlong drama.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Unfortunately, Färberböck never gives us reason enough to sit through such unremitting punishment. Though the story is based in truth, an emotionally removed Hoss feels more like a symbol than an actual person, while her detached narration keeps us at further remove.
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