The devastation surrounding World War II Europe continues to provide limitless fodder for feature melodramas, and directors have crisscrossed this period of history dozens of times, often to maximum emotional impact. So it feels a bit astonishing when a motion picture unearths an aspect of the Second World War rarely covered by mainstream film. Recalling Marcel Ophuls'
The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), Max Farberbock's fascinating period drama
A Woman in Berlin does exactly that: it introduces its viewers to a phase of the tumult given little cinematic attention elsewhere. Farberbock travels to a Berlin slum circa 1945, just outside of the Reichstag, in t...
Released:
2008
Rated:
n/a
Length:
131 mins