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The war is over when Nelly Lenz comes back to Berlin, her face damaged by a bullet. Her friend Lene takes her to a plastic surgeon. Nelly wants her old face back, but the surgeon cannot restore it, and she is disappointed by the result. Lene finds an apartment for the two of them. Nelly's family died in the war, leaving her a large inheritance; Lene wants her to collect the money and travel with her to Palestine. Nelly refuses to believe that Johnny, her husband, betrayed her, and goes out at night to look for him. She traces him to a nightclub named Phoenix. Johnny does not know her, says she resembles his late wife, and, hoping to get his wife's inheritance, asks her to impersonate the woman. Nelly agrees.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Phoenix (2014)
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- Adapting Hubert Monteilhet's novel, the scenarists changed the characters' names and occupations and cut its framing device: the daughter Fabienne learning of her mother's affair through her mother's journal entries.
