The Downfall of Berlin: Anonyma Page #2

Synopsis: 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?
Director(s): Max Färberböck
Production: Strand Releasing
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
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Year:
2008
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Most fellow countrymen adeptly

saved their own hides.

The girl from Silesia was easy prey.

Leave!

Mrs. Hitler.

You slut! Where to?

To the Fuhrer?

Here. Quick.

Penthouse to the right. Quick! Go!

Take this and go! Go!

Come.

You speak Russian.

You can't abandon me like that.

Soldier!

Why are you taking a woman...

who doesn't want you?

Willing women are unclean.

(Door is closed)

Open the door! Open it!

Open the door,

you bastards! Open it!

(Music)

Not here.

- Where?

- Almost there.

Stop! Stay where you are!

Hey you.

Shoo shoo!

Commander...

I am looking for

the commanding officer.

What's up?

Are you in charge here?

I... we need help.

Are you in charge here?

There are many in charge here.

Everybody is in charge.

Which one do you want?

Major, sir...

We need your help...

Our men are all healthy and clean.

(car departs)

Mrs. Hitler.

Our country is finished.

Gerd, do you remember your first words?

"Give me 30 minutes and you will

never want to leave me again."

God almighty.

- That is the back corridor.

- The widow offered me a place to stay.

She took me by the hand and just led me

inside her undestroyed apartment.

- I gratefully accepted the offer.

- You can stay here for a while.

Moving places was easy: a blouse,

a few books and notebooks.

- You are welcome to stay.

- Thank you, I'll take your offer.

(Russians singing)

Take good care of yourself.

In spite of everything, it would have

been good to have a closer look around.

But then, we never know everything,

so that's how the story continued.

I guess it has been

really nice here once.

How did you find me here?

I searched every cellar.

How often?

Often.

The shores are clad in green,

the trees are breathing

freely and deeply

We bravely stride on and on,

towards the final assault

in this war!

Our path was long to reach

this day in May.

It has cost us much

strength and courage.

But now we are free again!

We proudly take our positions.

Greetings, May.

Our soldiers and a few American weapons,

and those would be history.

Yeah.

(Russians cheering)

Yesterday at the water pump,

it was my turn,

a guy approaches me,

two Iron Crosses and one German

Cross in Gold on his chest,

and he gallantly takes the buckets

out of my hands. And I say:

"How do I deserve this honor?"

and he says "We can't give up now"

"because if the Russian

even remotely does to us

"what we did to them

during the last four years,

"in the near future there won't

be any living Germans left."

"In the near future"?

Nobody talks like that.

Hey you Slavs!

We're in Berlin! We made it!

How do you say:
Excuse me,

do you have a dictionary?

I guess he doesn't need a

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Max Färberböck

Max Färberböck (born 22 September 1950) is a German film director and writer. He was born in Brannenburg, Bavaria. He began his career at theaters in Buenos Aires and in Italy. He later studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich and worked for Constantin Film and as an assistant for Peter Zadek at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. After producing several plays at theaters in Hamburg, Heidelberg and Cologne, he began to write and direct episodes for the TV series Der Fahnder. Later Färberböck produced several TV films, before making his first feature film, Aimée & Jaguar (1998). It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was also nominated for the Golden Bear at 49th Berlin International Film Festival.He directed A Woman in Berlin (2008), based on the memoir by the same name. A new edition had been published in Germany in 2003, two years after the author's death. This controversial work dealt with the experiences of women in Berlin in the last weeks of the Battle of Berlin and occupation by Soviet Union troops at the end of World War II. The author is reputed to be the late journalist, Marta Hillers, who died in 2001. more…

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