The Downfall of Berlin: Anonyma Page #3

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.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2008
131 min
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dictionary for what he wants.

(banging)

Lenchen!

(unintelligible)

Come with us!

Come where?

Lenchen!

During the next few days,

our house was raided day and night.

Lenchen!

One woman hanged herself,

another one was shot to death.

None of us was spared.

Every emotion is dead.

Hey, you from Berlin!

Over here! Upstairs.

What kept you so long?

Berlin is ours.

Germany is ours.

Forever!

Lenchen.

- What have you got there?

- A map.

Move it! Faster.

You go left,

I go right.

Where are you going?

Come to us.

Come.

Wake up, damned of the earth,

who are living in hunger and misery.

Justice is about to burst through

like glowing magma in a volcano.

You just go away, away!

I!

I...

...love...

...you.

Good day.

Please, don't!

My pretty one.

I'll be back.

My pretty one...

I am a young man...

You scared me.

(Music)

We will survive all this,

by any means necessary.

Where to?

We're here.

Who are you looking for?

- Kommandatura?

- Kommandatura.

So where are they now,

our saviors, all the great armies?

In the past, war and dying

was a male exclusive thing.

But those times are long gone.

Damned Russians. Officer, General,

Commander, doesn't matter.

I take everyone,

as high in rank as possible.

From now on,

I will decide who gets me.

No, no. Get out of there, will you?

This is still my bed.

You can protect us from over there

on the couch, see? Protect.

Hm? See.

You don't have to get under my blanket.

Do you understand?

(Russian)

Where is the Major?

Wait.

Hey, Miss.

Who are you looking for?

You, blondie.

Why are you looking so stern?

You!

Could you soap my back, huh?

Who do you want to talk to?

You.

Dismissed.

May I have a seat?

No.

Yesterday our house has been occupied

and many women have been raped.

I know nothing of that.

It is your duty to help us.

Who?

My people...

...or yours?

Me.

That's just a few minutes.

That's nothing to worry about.

(Unintelligible)

It's pointless.

You Russian? Looking what?

Who are you looking for?

Commanding officer?

They are all with their women.

But I can do it too.

Lieutenant, sir.

May I have a word?

Some of the balconies in

our house are mined.

Could you help?

Pity.

Miss!

You, I, evening?

Hm?

I Anatol.

You, I, simple as that, huh?

At this moment I made a vow,

that nothing and nobody would

touch me, no matter what happened.

Come in.

Follow.

That's where I live.

Come on in.

You need to go now, understand?

Go back to your buddies.

Well...

That's my husband.

Don't you understand?

My husband.

You must understand that.

All humans are bad.

I never get what he's saying.

He just won't leave.

What are doing?

That is mahogany.

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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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