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Berlin Syndrome
MEANRANK
61/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 34, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 74. Critics average 72, everyone else 59.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Australian photojournalist vacationing in Berlin has a passionate holiday romance with a charming local teacher. What begins as an exciting fling turns into a nightmare when she wakes up the next morning to find herself locked in his apartment. She realizes her lover has no intention of ever letting her leave, and she must find a way to escape her meticulously crafted prison.
Details
- Director
- Cate Shortland
- Writer
- Shaun Grant
- Released
- 20 April 2017
- Country
- Australia
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $397.8K
- Awards
- 1 win, 23 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (27) →
Awards & nominations
See all 24 →1 win from 24 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Sundance Film Festival 2017 | Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema — Dramatic | Cate Shortland | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards ( 7th ) 2017 | Best Direction | Cate Shortland | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards ( 7th ) 2017 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Shaun Grant | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards ( 7th ) 2017 | Best Actress | Teresa Palmer | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards ( 7th ) 2017 | Best Editing | Jack Hutchings | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards ( 7th ) 2017 | Best Original Music Score | Bryony Marks | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards ( 7th ) 2017 | Best Production Design | Melinda Doring | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards ( 7th ) 2017 | Best Costume Design | Maria Pattison | Nominee |
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24 awards — Berlin Syndrome
×| Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema — Dramatic | Cate Shortland | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Bryony Marks | Winner |
| Best Actress | Teresa Palmer | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Germain McMicking | Nominee |
| Best Director | Cate Shortland | Nominee |
| Best Editing | Jack Hutchings | Nominee |
| Best Film | Polly Staniford Aquarius Films | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Teresa Palmer | Nominee |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Shaun Grant | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Maria Pattison | Nominee |
| Best Direction | Cate Shortland | Nominee |
| Best Editing | Jack Hutchings | Nominee |
| Best Film | Polly Staniford | Nominee |
| Best Original Music Score | Bryony Marks | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Melinda Doring | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Teresa Palmer | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Germain McMicking | Nominee |
| Best Director | Cate Shortland | Nominee |
| Best Film | Berlin Syndrome | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Shaun Grant | Nominee |
| Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Mixing | Sam Gain-Emery, Phil Heywood (re-recording mixer), Glenn Humphries | Nominee |
| Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Recording | Dane Cody, Auryn Lacy, Steffen Graubaum, Felix Kaufmann, Tom Herdman | Nominee |
| Best Writing in a Feature Film - Adaptation | Shaun Grant | Nominee |
| Grand Jury Prize - Narrative Feature Competition | Cate Shortland | Nominee |