Life is a bombed-out, soulless cabaret in Christian Petzold’s PHOENIX (2014, 98 min), a haunting portrait of identity, loss, and the search for answers in post-WWII Berlin. After undergoing reconstructive surgery, a concentration camp survivor (Nina Hoss) tries to find out if her husband (Ronald Zehrfeld) betrayed her to the Nazis. Tense, complex, and drenched in atmosphere, this is a well-acted, smartly crafted war drama that finds writer-director Christian Petzold working at peak power. German language version with English subs.

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