European Films

An A-list of German actresses including the recent Berlinale Best Actress winners Sandra Hüller (for 2006's Requiem) and Nina Hoss (for this year's Yella) and the Lola-nominated Jördis Triebel (Emma from Emmas Glück/Emma's Bliss) have started filming on the WWII drama Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin today. Directed by Max Färberböck (who also directed Aimée & Jaguar, another story of women in WWII), the film is based on the anonymous diaries of a German woman who had been in hiding with other women in a half-destroyed house when the Red Army invaded Berlin. She has to seek shelter from the abuse of the Red Army soldiers by finding one soldier who might protect her -- though things get complicated when something like love seems to get in their way.

 

Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin co-stars Fassbinder icon Irm Hermann, Juliane Köhler (Eva Braun in Der Untergang/Downfall and Aimée in Aimée und Jaguar), August Diehl (a concentration camp prisoner in the recent Berlinale title Die Fälscher/The Counterfeiters), Wenders-regular Rüdiger Vogler and Russian theatre and film actor Yevgeni Sidikhin (Leningrad), who plays the Russian soldier Andrej, who will protect Hoss's anonymous character despite the fact that they are theoretically enemies. The film has started principal photography in Poland today and will soon be moving to a studio near Cologne, where most of the film will be shot. Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin will be released in Germany in the autumn of 2008.