A Woman in Berlin - 2008

Everytime I see a film based on the events of World War II, I see yet another way that people were effected by this single event in history.

The horrors and moral compromises of this war set the stage for this harrowing drama from director Max Färberböck. Based on the best-selling diaries of an anonymous German woman who survived the Soviet invasion of Berlin at the end of World War II, this gripping drama tells the story of a photojournalist's (Nina Hoss) forbidden relationship with a Soviet officer (Yevgeni Sidikhin). After being sexually assaulted by members of the invading Red Army, she turns to the officer for support, but soon finds herself falling for him.