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Phoenix
MEANRANK
79/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 67, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98. Critics average 94, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A concentration camp survivor, her face disfigured and reconstructed after a shooting, returns to a devastated post-war Berlin. She searches for her husband, who may have betrayed her to the Nazis. She finds him working in a nightclub, but he does not recognize her in her new appearance. He approaches her with a scheme to claim her inheritance, leading her to hide her true identity to uncover the truth.
Details
- Director
- Christian Petzold
- Writer
- Christian Petzold
- Studio
- Schramm Film, WDR, BR, ARTE
- Released
- 25 September 2014
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Box office
- $5.9M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →0 wins from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 | IFFR audience award | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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