If “Phoenix” can harness the steam off its first weekend in New York, where the postwar drama earned nearly $30,000 at two theaters, it could become a runaway arthouse hit a la last year’s ...

The nightclub singer returns from a concentration camp, battered and disfigured, roaming like an apparition through a ruined city toward her husband’s betrayal. The war has not yet settled into ...

We learned last year that Christian Petzold, one of Germany’s great contemporary filmmakers, will follow Phoenix, one of our favorites of 2015, with Transit, based on Anna Seghers‘ World War II-era ...

The leading figure of Germany’s current wave of cinema, Christian Petzold reunites with his Hitchcock-blonde muse Nina Hoss in “Phoenix.” She plays Nelly, a disfigured concentration camp survivor who, ...

Christian Petzold‘s Phoenix is something of a contradiction: precisely calibrated on a screenwriting level and cleanly delivered on a formal level, yet working with a concept high enough and depending ...

"Quit playing Nelly! I know you're not her!" Sundance Selects + IFC Films have debuted a US trailer for the new film from German filmmaker Christian Petzold, titled Phoenix, a post-WWII-set ...

Sundance Selects has acquired U.S. rights to Christian Petzold's Nazi drama “Phoenix,” which stars Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld, the company announced Wednesday from the Toronto International Film ...

The curtain descends on Ronald Zehrfeld and Nina Hoss. With her new face, and feeling like a stranger to everyone, including herself, Nelly drifts through half-demolished postwar Berlin, looking for ...

Director Christian Petzold and actress Nina Hoss spoke to SBS Movies at the Toronto International Film Festival about the noir war drama 'Phoenix', out December 3. With Phoenix, Christian Petzold’s ...

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"You look very similar to someone." If you're interested in mysterious German suspense dramas, then you won't want to miss this one. Phoenix is the latest film from German filmmaker Christian Petzold, ...

The more you consider the nuances of German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s latest feature, Phoenix, the more difficult it is to articulate exactly what this mysterious and allusive drama is really ...