Release Date
July 24, 2015 (NY)
DVD Release Date
April 26, 2016 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Christian Petzold
Writer
Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki
Cast
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Imogen Kogge
Studio
Running Time
98 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and brief suggestive material
What is Phoenix about?
Based on the novel "Le Retour des cendres," by Hubert Monteilhet, Nina Hoss plays a disfigured concentration-camp survivor who is unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery who searches ravaged postwar Berlin for her husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld) who may have betrayed her to the Nazis.... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
A Jewish singer, disfigured beyond recognition during the Holocaust, discovers that her husband no longer recognizes her—and begins to suspect that he was the one who betrayed her—in the moody thriller Phoenix, a layered drama that delivers in atmosphere and weird tension, but doesn’t quite live up to the hype. Full movie review »
