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Green star A Woman in Berlin

Germany, Poland, 131 min. | Dir. Max Färberböck | Rated NR

A Woman in Berlin Have the Germans ever made a movie that was anything less than soul-crushingly depressing? A Woman in Berlin follows a group of German women hiding out Anne Frank-style (irony!) from Russian soldiers during the fall of Berlin at the end of World War II. After capturing Berlin, the Red Army spent the next several years raping and terrifying Germans, and A Woman in Berlin, based on the diary of a German journalist, might as well have been titled Rape: The Movie. A sample of the film’s uplifting dialogue: “The raping continues. They are everywhere, in every home” and “I can’t really say the Major rapes me. I am at his disposal. A whore? Perhaps.” A Woman in Berlin is a well-crafted, tense, stomach-churning examination of the horrors of war, but it will ruin your fucking day. By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee

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