Tuesday 1 December 20:30 

Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin
 ANONYMA: A WOMAN IN BERLIN  

Berlin, April 1945, the last days of the war. In a partially destroyed building people wait cowering in the basement, having survived night time bombing raids and artillery bombardments. Most of them are women, and they have a foreboding sense of what awaits them. The Red Army is poised to march in and seize Berlin.

Women in this building, like elsewhere in Berlin, become victims of rape. One of them is Anonyma, a journalist and photographer. She, however, refuses to see herself as a victim. Summoning up her courage and an unconditional will to defend her dignity, she decides to look for a “wolf”, a Russian officer who will protect her from the other soldiers. In return, she will sleep with him – voluntarily. What she had least expected happens: she begins to take an interest in the polite, melancholic Russian officer Andrej, and it turns into a relationship that feels a bit like love. Still, there is a barrier between them that never lets them forget that they come from enemy camps…

Max Faerberboeck produced plays at theaters in Hamburg, Heidelberg, and Cologne before writing and directing several episodes of the TV series Der Fahnder. He then wrote and directed four award-winning TV films (Schlafende Hunde, Einer zahlt immer, Bella Block - Die Kommissarin, and Bella Block - Liebestod) before making his feature film debut with Aimée & Jaguar, which was nominated for the Golden Globe Award 2000. His other films include Jenseits (2002), September (2003), and A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma – Eine Frau in Berlin, 2008).