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A Woman in Berlin (2008)

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Reviews Counted:24

Fresh:19

Rotten:5

Average Rating:6.8/10

Consensus: With a powerful lead performance by star Nina Hoss, A Woman in Berlin sheds a light on the moral complications of war.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Jul 17, 2009 Limited

Synopsis: AIMEE & JAGUAR’s Max Faerberboeck directs this gripping drama set in the days after Russia’s invasion of Berlin in 1945. Anonyma (Nina Hoss, YELLA) is surrounded by women, children, and men too... AIMEE & JAGUAR’s Max Faerberboeck directs this gripping drama set in the days after Russia’s invasion of Berlin in 1945. Anonyma (Nina Hoss, YELLA) is surrounded by women, children, and men too weak or old to fight in the war, and there is no one to defend her from the ravenous appetites of the invading army. After she and many of the women around her are raped, Anonyma picks Russian soldier Andrej (Evgeny Sidikhin) to be her protector, and they come to a compromise: if she has sex with him, he will keep her from his fellow men. Anonyma and Andrej embark on a strange relationship, and despite the appearance of affection, there is never any doubt of their positions in the world and the war. Based on an international bestseller, A WOMAN IN BERLIN also stars Irm Hermann, Rudiger Vogler, and Juliane Koehler. [More]

Starring: Nina Hoss, Evgeny Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rudiger Vogler

Starring: Nina Hoss, Evgeny Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rudiger Vogler, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Rolf Kanies, Jordis Triebel, Roman Gribkov, Juliane Koehler, Samvel Muzhikyan

Director: Max Faerberboeck

Director: Max Faerberboeck
Screenwriter: Max Faerberboeck
Producer: Gunter Rohrbach
Composer: Zbigniew Preisner
Studio: Strand Releasing

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Nov 10, 2009

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  • Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - German, Russian
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The suffering of these Berlin women, however tragic, is decontextualized from the infinitely greater crimes against humanity's millions by Germany at the time, which in fact was responsible for their fate.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
12/18/09
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

It's a rigorous adaptation, handsomely mounted and with fine performances, but totally impersonal.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
12/04/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

A clear-eyed portrait of a highly charged chapter in Germany's history, a history that once again proves rewarding fodder for an alert artistic imagination.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
11/06/09
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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That rarest of wartime dramas: an intimate, sorrowful glimpse into the heart and loins of the hellish aftermath of war.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
10/09/09
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

Though deliberately paced and somewhat repetitive, it's...powerful and enlightening.

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10/06/09
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

No one is guiltless—not the Russian commander (Yevgeny Sidikhin) who takes the heroine as his lover, nor her bourgeois landlady (Fassbinder alumnus Irm Hermann), who welcomes the occupiers for their black market goods.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
10/02/09
Andrea Gronvall
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
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The film is well-acted, with restraint, by Hoss and Sidikhin. The writer and director, Max Faerberboeck, employs a level gaze and avoids for the most part artificial sentimentality. The physical production is convincing.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
09/24/09
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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This sobering account of such tragic events deserves kudos for avoiding sensationalizing a subject matter that easily could be exploited.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
09/15/09
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Like The Reader, this film treads unsteadily over the terrain of German guilt.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
08/28/09
Marc Mohan
Marc Mohan
Oregonian

A disturbing memoir of rape and conquest.

Full Review Source: MTV | comment Comment
08/28/09
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
MTV

evokes the meaninglessness of trying to find morals in war

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/25/09
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com

Sometimes a movie based on true events is forceful out of all proportion to its middling presentation.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
08/21/09
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

[A] brutal, unforgettable film.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
08/07/09
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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This little-known, morally complex tale of German women's endurance in WWII raises interesting questions and almost forces you to take a stance.

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08/07/09
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Now it can be told: the ugly truth that German women cooperated with the Russian enemy to avoid rape, and what's more appear to have developed affection for the conquerors!

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
07/23/09
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Captivating and emotionally resonating with a powerfully raw performance by Nina Hoss.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
07/18/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

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.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
07/17/09
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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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.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/17/09
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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However and wherever you see it, A Woman in Berlin is 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.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
07/17/09
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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[C]reates complex, three-dimensional men and women, Germans and Russians, who are each victims of political propaganda and the horrors of a brutal, total war.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
07/17/09
Nora Lee Mandel
Nora Lee Mandel
Film-Forward.com
 
 
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