Released Date:
2006-10-26
Languages:
German, English
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
88 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (288 Reviews)
Director:
Ulrich KèhlerGenres:
DramaFrieder and his wife Nina, a doctor, are fixing up their house, though their relationship is obviously strained. Instead of picking up their young daughter Charlotte, Nina drives off to visit her brother Christoph in an isolated cabin. From there, she cycles to a sports hotel in the woods where she stays. Aimlessly wandering around the hotel, she has a brief encounter with an old tennis pro who has been giving demonstrations. Her brother, Frieder, and Charlotte find her, but she does not come home with them. After all the old windows have been removed, Frieder rejects the replacement ones that are delivered. Frieder has a liaison an old girlfriend Maria, who is now Charlotte's nursery school teacher. Nina returns to the house without windows.
Released Date:
2015-07-24
Languages:
German, English
Countries:
Germany, Poland
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (3452 Reviews)
Director:
Christian PetzoldChristian Petzold (screenplay)
Harun Farocki
Hubert Monteilhet (novel)
Nelly Lenz, a Jewish singer, has survived the Nazi concentration camps but at what cost? She is disfigured and has had to undergo facial surgery. Back in what is left of Berlin, accompanied by her faithful friend Lene, she has only one thing in mind, finding Johnny, her musician husband in the ruins of the city. She wants to know if he still loves her and if he has betrayed her, as Lene claims he has. She does meet him but Johnny does not recognize her. Worse, he asks her to impersonate... Nelly, with a view to grabbing her inheritance
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