Christian Petzold
Feb 25, 2021
4 minutes
As told to SOPHIE MONKS KAUFMAN
Illustration by
MORGAN GRICE
The German filmmaker Christian Petzold came to the fore on the back of a string of collaborations with the actor Nina Hoss. Their collaboration peaked with 2014’s harrowing Vertigo-riff, Phoenix, and Petzold then surprised his followers by making a film, 2018’s Transit, with a new female lead: Paula Beer. Here we pick up on the pair’s second collaboration, Undine, which chronicles the intense love affair between a commercial diver and a water sprite.
Nina Hoss and I have made so many films together. was very hard for her and for me. We said to ourselves,
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