June 1945. Badly injured her face destroyed Auschwitz survivor Nelly returns to Berlin. Having barely recovered from facial surgery she sets out to find her husband Johnny. Nelly’s family has been murdered in the Holocaust - Johnny is convinced that his wife too is dead. When Nelly finally tracks him down he doesn’t recognise her but seeing a resemblance Johnny asks her to take on the identity of his ‘late’ wife in order to access her inherited fortune. Nelly agrees: she becomes her own imposter. She wants to know if he loved her –... and whether he betrayed her. She wants her old life back. [show more]
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German drama set in the aftermath of World War II. After receiving facial surgery to repair the injuries she sustained in a Nazi concentration camp, Jewish singer Nelly Lenz (Nina Hoss) searches for her husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), who, according to her friend Lene (Nina Kunzendorf), has betrayed her. Nelly hopes to discover that Johnny still loves her but when she finds him he doesn't recognise her. Believing his other half to be dead and seeing that Nelly bears a resemblance to her, Johnny plans to have her impersonate his wife so he can claim her inheritance. Nelly decides to keep her true identity a secret but will she go through with the plan?
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