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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.
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.
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.
Yella is a sparse and intriguing German film from director Christian Petzold, whose films feel eerily similar in style and substance to the movies of Michael Haneke.
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In Christian Petzold’s film Yella, she plays the title character, a woman constantly besieged by toxic men. At the apex of Yella’s (justified) paranoia and fear, the camera shoots her in profile as she sits slumped on a bed.
Sep 17, 2007 · Yella (played with a spectral simplicity by Nina Hoss) is a business-savvy divorcee based in the sleepy East German town of Wittenberge.
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...
