Phoenix by Christian Petzold

Thursday 19 May 2016 at 7:30 pm
Phoenix © Diaphana.

Phoenix © Diaphana.

Allemagne, fiction, 98 mn, Schramm Film Koerner & Weber / Diaphana, 2014, vostf.

June 1945: Seriously defaced, the singer Nelly Lenz, the only survivor of a family deported to Auschwitz, returns to Berlin. After a facial reconstruction surgery, Nelly goes in search of her husband.

When she finds him, he sees only a disturbing resemblance and offers her to take the identity of his late wife to recover his family patrimony. Nelly becomes her own double.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

In the presence of:

Pierre Gras, writer and film teacher.

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