What if European arthouse remade Vertigo and, I guess, The Departed and then added the D/s overtones seemingly obligatory for European productions... and, of course, the Holocaust angle? For me, I was often pulled out of the film's world by Hoss's stumbling physical performance of vulnerability — too mannered and affected. I did enjoy thinking that this is essentially a comedy of remarriage.
Synopsis: In the aftermath of WWII, German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly has to undergo facial reconstructive surgery following her survival from Auschwitz. Without recognising Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he's betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelgänger.