The Downfall of Berlin: Anonyma Page #4

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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Relax.

Go into the kitchen.

To the 215th Rifles!

To victory!

To us.

I Charkov!

He's from Charkov.

Charkov! Ah!

I'm industrial accountant in books.

An accountant?

You're kidding me.

I accountant! You accountant!

We accountant!

Everything fine.

That's life, you see?

You, pretty.

Ain't they great guys, those Russians?

They are full of juice and strength.

The f***ing war is really

pissing me off.

True.

When I get back to Charkov,

I'll marry, build a house,

get children.

I am working in the kolkhoz.

and you, I will

take you as my accountant.

Are you a professional soldier?

No...

I, dairy.

Milk! Milk. Cow.

- How very interesting.

- Interesting! Milk and milk.

That's bullshit.

Look at this.

My trophies.

That's nothing.

Here.

THAT is a trophy.

That's not a trophy.

Have a look at this.

That...

...that is a REAL trophy.

An original.

My present to all the ladies.

To kiss and marvel about.

Where toilet?

- The toilet's on the corridor.

- Thanks.

Would you like something to eat?

You.

(Baby screaming)

You fancy my dick?

Doesn't matter which one.

Dick is dick.

Why Russia?

What were you doing there,

you sons of a b*tch?

Why Russia?

That is Major...

afraid I forgot his name already.

He is battalion commander. They don't

have commandants, only commanders.

(widow) Did you know that they study

German as first foreign language?

Well, it needs a war for us to

get this bit of information.

Can I do something for you?

(door slamming)

Hey Mongol. Have you come

all the way from Moscow

just to get some water

for a German woman?

Or is our major bathing in rose essence?

Made in Germany...

I am taking care of the Major.

Go now.

I'll catch up later.

Go.

Go, Mongol, go!

Move it. Faster!

Go, go, go!

Move it already.

Faster.

A bomb hit the garden of the neighbors

and the whole house was rubble.

And it blasted the fattened

sow up till under the roof.

Well, obviously it was spoiled.

Here.

Give it to me.

My apologies...

for my unsuitable behavior.

Dismissed.

(Music)

Berlin is ours.

There.

I have told everybody

that they needed to go.

May I sit down?

Come here.

As you wish.

No?

The raping process continues.

They are everywhere.

In every apartment.

We are Russian property now.

At their service.

But us women, we will need to

keep our mouths shut,

or no man will ever want to touch

us again when this is all over.

Poor Germany.

German fighters:
sit!

Four. Four women.

The whole of Berlin is a brothel.

Here.

That's what I've found.

They've got everything.

They've got jewelry

and money and houses.

And yet they go to war!

Scoundrels.

Enough.

What do I care about them?

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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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