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A Woman in Berlin

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The horrors and moral compromises of war set the stage for this harrowing drama from director Max Färberböck, based on a true story. An anonymous female reporter (Nina Hoss) is living in Berlin in the spring of 1945; most of the city has been reduced to rubble by bombing, the German army has been decimated, and most of those left behind are expecting the arrival of Russian troops and fearful of what awaits them. The reporter is one of a number of women who are hiding wherever they can in the city...more

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74 out of 100 Metascore®

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A powerful, evocative film by joehark
This isn ot only a film done well, it is also an important contribution to the cinematic literature of that time. The cocept at the heart of the film is that...

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A Woman in Berlin by werthie
Good, but not great . . . An inherently depressing history lesson about the widespread rape of German women by victorious Russian troops at the end of WWII...

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