A Woman in Berlin

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A Woman in Berlin

Released Jul 17, 2009

2h 11m

Drama

War

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A woman struggles to survive the Russian invasion of Berlin during World War II.

Critics Consensus

With a powerful lead performance by star Nina Hoss, A Woman in Berlin sheds a light on the moral complications of war.

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Nicolas Rapold

Time Out

Rated: 2/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out

Rated: 5/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Rated: B-

Sep 7, 2011

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

A story that is not often heard, and Faerberboeck treats it honorably with this restrained and respectful film.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 5, 2019

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Laura Hiros

Rincón de cine

An aggressive, brutal film and... tremendously valuable. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Mar 15, 2018

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Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

The suffering of these Berlin women, however tragic, is decontextualized from the infinitely greater crimes against humanity's millions by Germany at the time, which in fact was responsible for their fate.

Dec 18, 2009

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Audience Member

well crafted WWII pic post WWII really intense bummer theatre about life during wartime from a female perspective which is very grim.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Movies like that are the reason I love war movies. Beautiful. True story too, which makes it so much more emotional.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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velimir s

Obezglavljena realnost osvajanja, pobjede, ponosa ...i silovanja koje ide uz to. Nema goreg trenutka za biti zena, nego na strani gubitnika u ogromnom ratu. Bljakavo.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Absolutely haunting. Anyone who talks about whose 'fault' it was or Hitler's crimes misses the point of the film and erases the terrible suffering of German civilians at the hands of Russian army.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

Brutal to see what war can do to people. It is gripping and a movie that will leave you impacted for sure because it highlights an incredibly horrible event of the mass rape of German women by Soviet men, who were desperate for revenge due to the Brutal Nazi assault on the USSR and it's inhabitants. I would be prepared to be at times disturbed, yet the film carries a love that truly fits in well. A very sad movie but incredibly powerful and extremely historically accurate.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Audience Member

A well made movie based on real-life events. Despite being rather long, it seemed a bit lacking in character development, or at least elaborating a little more on their motivations. The way the main characters were portrayed, it was hard to feel much sympathy for either of them.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Max Färberböck

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Nina Hoss

Anonyma

Evgeny Sidikhin

Major Andreij Rybkin

Irm Hermann

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Rudiger Vogler

Eckhart

Ulrike Krumbiegel

Ilse Hoch

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Synopsis

A woman struggles to survive the Russian invasion of Berlin during World War II.

Director: Max Färberböck
Producer: Günter Rohrbach
Screenwriter: Max Färberböck, Catharina Schuchmann
Distributor: Strand
Genre: Drama, War
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 17, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 12, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $291.8K
Runtime: 2h 11m

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