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  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 11 m
  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 11 m

Summary Set in 1945 during the Red Army invasion of Berlin. Women are victims of rape and devastation; one of them is Anonyma , who had been a journalist and photographer. In her desperation, she decides to look for an officer who can protect her. She meets a Russian officer Andrej - an encounter which develops into a complex symbiotic relations...

Directed By: Max Färberböck

Written By: Marta Hillers, Catharina Schuchmann, Max Färberböck

  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 11 m
  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 11 m

A Woman in Berlin

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary Set in 1945 during the Red Army invasion of Berlin. Women are victims of rape and devastation; one of them is Anonyma , who had been a journalist and photographer. In her desperation, she decides to look for an officer who can protect her. She meets a Russian officer Andrej - an encounter which develops into a complex symbiotic relations...

Directed By: Max Färberböck

Written By: Marta Hillers, Catharina Schuchmann, Max Färberböck

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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It's intelligent, provocative and intensely dramatic. Its subject matter may be tough but it is as powerfully authentic as anyone could want.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
80
One of the best of a new breed of indigenous movies prying open the Pandora's box of German suffering in World War II, A Woman in Berlin takes on the mass rape of German women by victorious Russian soldiers entering the country in 1945.
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Joins such wonderful recent films as "The Lives of Others" and "The Baader Meinhof Complex" as 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.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
67
Like "The Reader," this film treads unsteadily over the terrain of German guilt.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
50
A stately, intermittently gripping, ultimately overlong drama.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
40
Unfortunately, Färberböck never gives us reason enough to sit through such unremitting punishment. 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.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Constantin Film, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Tempus
Release Date Jul 17, 2009
Duration 2 h 11 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline World War II ends and her story begins...
Website http://www.anonyma.film.de/
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Awards

German Film Awards
• 2 Nominations
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Camerimage
• 1 Nomination

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