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Phoenix

In Berlin, 1945, a disfigured concentration camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.

Berlin, 1945: Singer Nelly Lenz returns to Berlin terribly disfigured having survived the concentration camps. After her recovery from extensive plastic surgery, refusing to believe that her estranged husband Johnny could have betrayed her to the Nazis, she resolves to find him in the hope he will still recognise her even though others no longer can.

1 hour, 38 minutes

Last on

Sun 26 May 201900:50
BBC Two

Credits

Nelly LenzNina Hoss
Johannes 'Johnny' LenzRonald Zehrfeld
Lene WinterNina Kunzendorf
Dr ArztMichael Maertens
ViolinistFelix Romer
ElisabethImogen Kogge
ClubbesitzerUwe Preuss
WirtinKirsten Block
SigridDaniela Holtz
FrederikeClaudia Geisler-Bading
TänzerinEva Bay
Junge FrauNikola Kastner
DirectorChristian Petzold
WriterChristian Petzold
WriterHarun Farocki

Broadcasts

  • Sun 19 Feb 201723:00
    BBC Four
  • Sun 31 Mar 201902:30
    BBC Two except Scotland
  • Sun 26 May 201900:50
    BBC Two except Scotland

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