![]() ![]() In these two women, we see courage, hope, and beauty emerge from ruin and desperation. ![]() It's easy to forget that bravery in wartime is not reserved solely fo combat soldiers. Lilly finds love and discovers who she really is, while Felice finds a reason to stop running. She is introduced, however, as a mistress to a Nazi officer, and the viewer sees immediately that Lilly is simply lost.dutifully serving out her role(s) to the men in her life, yet stricken with a suspicion that love has escaped her. Lilly is a German housewife with four children and a husband on the Russian front. She runs with a pack of party-girls, lesbians all, who butterfly their nights away living for the moment in the face of destruction, persecution, and death. ![]() Felice is a young stenographer hiding her Jewish identity and passing stealthily through bombed-out Berlin. This is a beautiful story and a haunting film, set in crumbling Berlin near the end of Germany's second run at world domination. ![]()
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