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Undine  2020
Director:  Christian Petzold
Producer:
  Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber and Margaret Ménégoz
Art Director:
  Merlin Ortner
Editor:
  Bettina Böhler
Screenplay:
  Christian Petzold
Director of Photography:
  Hans Fromm
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Cast:
spacer1 Paula Beer
spacer1 Franz Rogowski
spacer1 Maryam Zaree
spacer1 Jacob Matschenz
spacer1 Christoph Zrenner
spacer1 Anne Ratte-Polle
spacer1 Gloria Endres de Oliveira
spacer1 Rafael Stachowiak
spacer1 José Barros
spacer1 Julia Franz Richter
spacer1 Enno Trebs
spacer1 Stefan Walz
spacer1 Paula Beer spacer1 Franz Rogowski spacer1 Maryam Zaree
spacer1 Jacob Matschenz spacer1 Christoph Zrenner spacer1 Anne Ratte-Polle
spacer1 Gloria Endres de Oliveira spacer1 Rafael Stachowiak spacer1 José Barros
spacer1 Julia Franz Richter spacer1 Enno Trebs spacer1 Stefan Walz
spacer1 Paula Beer spacer1 Franz Rogowski
spacer1 Maryam Zaree spacer1 Jacob Matschenz
spacer1 Christoph Zrenner spacer1 Anne Ratte-Polle
spacer1 Gloria Endres de Oliveira spacer1 Rafael Stachowiak
spacer1 José Barros spacer1 Julia Franz Richter
spacer1 Enno Trebs spacer1 Stefan Walz

Synopsis:
In films including Yella, Phoenix and the recent Transit, Christian Petzold has offered a panoramic take on Germany present and past, drawing on cinema history to take exhilarating risks with the pleasures of narrative.

His most playful film to date, Undine is at once a quasi-realist contemporary drama and an evocative rewriting of the German myth of the water nymph. Paula Beer (Frantz) plays a historian of Berlin urbanism, who is undergoing a romantic crisis when she has a literally explosive encounter with industrial diver Christoph (Beer’s Transit co-star Franz Rogowski).

Petzold skates elegantly and provocatively on the edge of the impossible – and against the odds, weaves his magic in an entertainment that’s beautifully acted, eerily moving and, as ever, acutely intelligent.

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