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May 16, 2008 · By Stephen Holden. May 16, 2008. Christian Petzold’s enigmatic thriller “Yella” offers a surreal X-ray vision of cutthroat capitalism in 21st-century Germany. Yella Fichte (Nina Hoss), a sleek...
- Stephen Holden
- Christian Petzold
Yella is a 2007 German drama-thriller film written and directed by Christian Petzold and starring Nina Hoss. The film is an unofficial remake of the 1962 American film Carnival of Souls. Yella premiered at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival where Hoss won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award.
The dream's building blocks are taken from her real life, but the dream does not refer to some underlying truth to which Yella remained oblivious in her conscious existence but, rather, documents the path her life could have taken.
May 16, 2008 · Yella: Directed by Christian Petzold. With Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann, Burghart Klaußner. Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.
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- Drama, Horror, Romance
- Christian Petzold
- 2008-05-16
Sep 20, 2020 · Read an in-depth review and critical analysis of Yella by film critic Brian Eggert on Deep Focus Review. Christian Petzold’s Yella is an unassuming story with a powerful metaphor about the complexities of German reunification.
Clocking in at just under 90 minutes, Yella is a modest, haunting, highly economical work that rewards repeated viewings. It tells the story of Yella Fichte (Nina Hoss), a young woman from the former industrial town of Wittenberg in what was once East Germany, who is about to start a job in the West.
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Jul 30, 2008 · Yella is a reserved young woman with unrevealed depths of intelligence, larceny and passion. Their gradual revelation makes this more than an ordinary thriller, in great part because of the performance of Nina Hoss in the title role.
