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Anonyma - A Woman in Berlin

Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin

2008

Max Färberböck

Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler ...

6.4

793

Drama Based on the diary written by a woman -Anonyma- in the basement of her bombed out building during the invasion of Berlin by The Red Army in the last months of WWII. It details the way German women survived the rapes the Red Army officers felt they deserved in victory. Anonymous uses one soldier to her advantage and essentially considers him her lover not her rapist. Her real fiancé returns from the front only to spurn her for being ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The accomplishment of 'A Woman in Berlin' is to tell its story, much as the author of the original diaries did, with a combination of dispassionate clarity and complex human feeling."	POS
United States	Eddie Cockrell Variety	"Large cast meshes well, though fewer storylines would streamline impact and running time"	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The film tries hard to understand both sides of the divide and offer a strong sense of life across a whole, beleaguered city (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Powerful and moving but lacking in depth of character"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The film is well-acted, with restraint, by Hoss and Sidikhin (...) [The director] avoids for the most part artificial sentimentality. The physical production is convincing (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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