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1) Phoenix
Series
Criterion collection volume 809
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret perfromer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story that's as richly metaphorical as it...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. For Gustav it also helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless...Gerhard Lamprecht built his reputation in the 1930s with socially-critical Berlin films based on the drawings of Heinrich Zille, and hits like Emil and the Detectives (1931,...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Women become the victims of the Red Army invasion in Berlin in 1945. One of them, Anonyma, a educated woman, decides to look for an officer who can protect her. A complex symbiotic relationship develops between her and Russian officer Andrej that will force them to remain enemies until the bitter end.
4) War trilogy
Series
Criterion collection volume 498
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
Italiano
Description
Resistance thrives in Nazi-occupied Rome; Italians attempt to live their everyday lives and communicate with their American liberators at the end of World War II; twelve-year-old Edmund struggles to survive with his family in an almost completely destroyed Berlin.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ("promise", "love", "mercy") from books. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life near Leipzig, tending beehives, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Drawn together as Germany's hope for a glorious future...
6) Night people
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"After World War II, an American GI is kidnapped by Soviets who hope to exchange him for two ex-Nazis hiding in West Berlin."--Container.
7) The bunker
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin, before and during the battle for the city.
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