Phoenix (2014) Reviews & Ratings

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Phoenix reviews

Phoenix holds a 6.8/10 average from 524 TMDB ratings.

With much of Germany in ruins following the end of the War, "Nelly" (Nina Hoss) returns to a Berlin that is almost as unrecognisable to her as her recently reconstructed face is to everyone else. She hasn't any money, but the kindly "Mrs. Winter" (Nina Kunzendorf) and her housekeeper "Elizabeth" (Imogen Kogge) take her in. It's whilst "Nelly" is revisiting some of their pre-war haunts that she encounters "Johnny" (R…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

In the aftermath of WWII, German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly has to undergo facial reconstructive surgery following her survival from Auschwitz. Without recognising Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he's betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelgänger.

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