Watch A Woman in Berlin (2008) together, long-distance

About the film

A Woman in Berlin (German: Anonyma – Eine Frau in Berlin), known as The Downfall of Berlin – Anonyma in the UK, is a 2008 German film directed by Max Färberböck, starring Nina Hoss and Yevgeny Sidikhin. It is based on the memoir, Eine Frau in Berlin, published anonymously (by Marta Hillers) in 1959 in German, with a new edition in 2003. (It was also published in English in 1954 and 2005, and in seven other languages.) It deals with the treatment of civilians in Soviet-occupied Berlin in the final days of World War II and its immediate aftermath. The film shows a darker side of the Red Army, with its troops repeatedly harassing civilians and raping women, and shows how they integrated themselves into one neighborhood of German civilians. The film premiered at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival and was praised for its portrayal of a morally complex and brutal period.

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How to watch it together from different places

Each of you opens A Woman in Berlin on your own account. Herae keeps the two players in sync, so a pause or a skip happens for both of you, and puts a video call in the corner of the film so you can see each other react.

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