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According to PW of 7/17/09, "Today, the independent film A Woman in Berlin opens in limited release, starring Nina Hoss, Yevgeni Sidikhin and Irm Hermann. It’s based on A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Anonymous (then a 34-year-old journalist who started the diary in April 1945, when the Russians were invading Berlin and the city's mostly female population was heading to its cellars to wait out the bombing), translated by Philip Boehm.� Find this book in our catalog.

Summary from our catalog: "For six weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman, alone in the city, kept a daily record of her and her neighbors' degradations, determined to describe the common experience of millions."

Labels: Berlin-history, books to movies, Woman in Berlin, World War II - history