Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin
A Woman in Berlin
Berlin, April 1945, the last days of the war. In a partially destroyed building, people cower in the basement – and wait. They have survived the night-time bombing raids and the artillery bombardments. Most of them are women, and they have a foreboding of what awaits them. The Red Army is poised to march in and take Berlin.
Women in this building, like elsewhere in Berlin, become victims of rape. One of them is Anonyma, a journalist and photographer. She, however, re - fuses to see herself as a victim. Summoning up her courage and an unconditional will to defend her dignity, she reaches a decision. She will look for a "wolf", a Russian officer who will protect her from the other soldiers. In return, she will sleep with him – voluntarily. What she had least expected happens: she begins to take an interest in the polite, melancholic Russian officer Andrej, and it turns into a relationship that feels a bit like love. Still, there is a barrier between them that never lets them forget that they come from enemy camps…
The film by director Max Färberböck and producer Günter Rohrbach is based on the diary by an authoress who remained anonymous until her death, the only woman to write about the still taboo topic of the rape of German women by soldiers of the Red Army at the end of World War II. The book is a unique historical document. It caused a sensation worldwide and went to the top of the bestseller lists when it was re-released in Germany in 2003.
Source: 59. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Anonyma
- Andreij Rybkin
- Witwe
- Eckhart
- Ilse Hoch
- Friedrich Hoch
- Bärbel Maltaus
- Anatol
- Elke
- Andropov
Production company
Producer
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Screenplay
Co-author
Director of photography
Optical effects
Still photography
Key grip
Production design
Set design
Drawings
Prop master
Make-up artist
Costume design
Editing
Sound editor
Foley editor
Sound
Foley artist
Audio mixing
Casting
Music
Cast
- Anonyma
- Andreij Rybkin
- Witwe
- Eckhart
- Ilse Hoch
- Friedrich Hoch
- Bärbel Maltaus
- Anatol
- Elke
- Andropov
- Mongole
- Mascha
- Erster Vergewaltiger
- Flüchtlingsmädchen
- Gerd
- Greta Malthaus
- Steffi
- Achtzigjährige Frau
- Junger Soldat
- Dr. Wolf
- Buchhändler
- Lisbeth
- Petka
- Volodja
- Frau Wendt
- Buttermann
- Russischer Soldat Ivan
- Frau Binder
- Edith
- Deutscher Offizier
Voice
- Russischer Soldat
Production company
in co-production with
in association with
Producer
Producer (TV)
Executive producer
Line producer
Unit production manager
Original distributor
Shoot
- 28.05.2007 - 04.09.2007: Köln, Berlin, Breslau, Liegnitz; MCM Studios Hürth
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 01.08.2008, 114827, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 14.10.2008, Köln;
Kinostart (DE): 23.10.2008
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 01.08.2008, 114827, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 14.10.2008, Köln;
Kinostart (DE): 23.10.2008
TV-Fassung
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 10.05.2010, ZDF [1. Teiil];
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 12.05.2010, ZDF [2. Teil]
Awards
- Prädiakt: Wertvoll