Christian Petzold : 2014
Nelly Lenz, is an Auschwitz survivor who has been disfigured while in the concentration camp. After a surgical intervention, she starts looking for her husband Johnny, who is convinced that she is dead. When Nelly finally finds him, he does not recognise her, but finds an unsettling similarity between her and the wife he remembers, and therefore asks that she pretends to be her so he can claim the inheritance which was left behind by Nelly's family after they were murdered in the Holocaust. Nelly agrees and becomes her own doppelgänger. What she wants to know is if Johnny ever loved her, or if he betrayed her to the Nazis. What she wants is to have her life back. Christian Petzold's feature premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2014, and was winner of the FIPRESCI Award at San Sebastián International Film Festival 2014.
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