German Film: "Phoenix"

Sponsored by: Germanic and Slavic Studies, Department of

Contact: Kris Petti 

The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies brings the award-winning German film, "Phoenix" to Athens.

Film summary: Nelly (Nina Hoss), a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with her face disfigured by a bullet wound. After undergoing reconstructive surgery, Nelly emerges with a new face, one similar but different enough that her former husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), doesn't recognize her. Rather than reveal herself, Nelly walks into a dangerous game of duplicity and disguise as she tries to figure out if the man she loves may have been the one who betrayed her to the Nazis.

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