A Woman in Berlin 2008 123movies

Watch: Anonyma – Eine Frau in Berlin 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. She is in her early 30s, a patriotic journalist with international credentials; her husband, Gerd, a writer, is an officer at the Russian front. She speaks Russian and, for a day or two after the invasion, keeps herself safe, but then the rapes begin. She resolves to control her fate and invites the attentions of a Russian major, Andreij Rybkin. He becomes her protector of sorts subject to pressures from his own fellow soldiers and officers. Dramas play out in the block of flats where she lives. Is she an amoral traitor? She asks, “How do we go on living?” And what of Gerd and her diary?.
Plot: A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. She is in her early 30s, a patriotic journalist with international credentials; her husband, Gerd, a writer, is an officer at the Russian front. She speaks Russian and, for a day or two after the invasion, keeps herself safe, but then the rapes begin. She resolves to control her fate
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	7.0/10 Votes: 6,690
	82% | RottenTomatoes
	74/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 50 Popularity: 7.374 | TMDB

Reviews:

It takes a war for you to find out about things like that
I haven’t read the diary, but my father has and after we watched this together, he said that they got everything from the compelling book with its important testimony. This review is based upon the version with a two hour running time and six minutes of credits. After Berlin was taken over by Russian soldiers(among them men who had not had sex for four years) at the end of WW2, and raped 100.000 women, leading to the death of 10.000 of them. When this was first revealed in the late 50’s, the truth outraged many in the country. It was called an attack on the virtue of female Germans. Fortunately, it was re-released in 2003, and now this excellent adaptation has hit theaters. There is apparently also a longer cut, and if the standard of this is maintained, it is undoubtedly great and worth it. This is gripping from start to finish. It all comes across as real and authentic(helped by the fact that they speak the three languages they are supposed to), and since this is entirely objective and doesn’t take any sides in the conflict, you feel for both groups. The acting performances are spot-on. This has some marvelous little touches and details, and it is historically accurate. The characters are complex and psychologically credible. This is immensely well-produced. The camera-work and editing put you right in the situation when this fits, and is in general expertly done. This has extraordinary lighting. There are a few light portions that keep it from being all sad(without it taking away from how touching and engaging the rest of it is). It is tense and unpleasant when it means to be, albeit it isn’t outright depressing. The atmosphere is built up well. There is a bit of moderate sexuality, nudity of both genders, brutal violence and disturbing content in this. The DVD comes with a trailer for this and ones for other films. I recommend this warmly to everyone mature enough for it. What happened should never be forgotten. 8/10

A perfect companion to Downfall, and equal to it in so many ways
A Woman in Berlin (2008)

Imagine the horrors of women caught in a large city during the chaos of war, with occupying troops storming your apartment building day after day. Well, think again. It isn’t imaginable. I think even people who live through such things (and we are talking Berlin, 1945 for this movie) the truth is something that is pushed away. Because even watching a movie–a movie!–of these events is unbearable.

Not that the movie is unwatchable. Just the opposite. It’s beautifully made, seeming to parallel that other recent German movie about the last days of the Nazi reign, “Downfall,” 2004. But unlike that movie, this isn’t about political history, or the history of war, or even the dramatization of historical figures as real people. This is a personal story, centering around one woman played by Nina Hoss, and about the repeated rape and abuse of women by the Russian troops for days and weeks on end. There was no escape, no power to complain to, no justice anywhere, anywhere, not German or Russian or even American (assuming they were any better) a mile or two away.

The movie is based on a book, “Anonyma,” by a woman whose identity is not revealed, if it is even known (this was her protection even after death). The movie suffers now and then from a sameness, a steady pounding, beginning to end. The parade of horrors is continuous even as relationships develop and the first wave of anarchistic occupiers shifts to more entrenched troops and some general partying. You do cling to some semblance of progression, or of events to stand out from the others, but it’s mostly about horribleness.

But maybe that’s the way it should be. It was an endless nightmare on every level, even if you (they, these women) survive. In some ways, the end of the war is more believably insane here than in “Downfall” even though they are in many ways comparable movies, comparable moments. Such an array or gritty, believable acting and sets you won’t find often. And thankfully, even the sentimental aspects are handled without swelling music and other cinematic tricks found too often this side of the Atlantic.

One last point, whatever you think of the Germans and WWII, here is yet another kind of national acknowledgment and, for many, soul-searching. This is a German film. The Russians don’t come off great, for sure, but the Germans are clearly at fault, and are shown that way, and shown as responsible for even greater crimes. There’s no glossing over any of it. Watch this movie. It won’t be fun, but it’ll be stirring and important.

Other Information:

Original Language de
Runtime 2 hr 11 min (131 min), 2 hr 55 min (175 min) (2 parts)
Budget 0
Revenue 1863939
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Biography, Drama, History
Director Max Färberböck
Writer Max Färberböck, Marta Hillers, Catharina Schuchmann
Actors Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann
Country Germany, Poland
Awards 1 win & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Arricam ST, Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Arriflex 235, Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Arriflex 435 Xtreme, Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory Arri Kopierwerk, Germany
Film Length 3,591 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (3-perf) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic), D-Cinema