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Germany, France, 2018, 101 minutes, Color, German, French, French Sign Language; Turkish subtitled


2018 Nuremberg Film Festival Turkey-Germany; Best Film

Director:  Christian Petzold

Screenplay: Christian Petzold
Cinematography: Hans Fromm
Editing: Bettina Böhler
Music: Stefan Will
Production: Neon Productions, Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Cast: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Sebastian Hülk, Emilie de Preissac, Antoine Oppenheim, Louison Tresallet

When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. Stuck in Marseilles, he meets a young woman desperate to find her missing husband - the very man he's impersonating.