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3.4

75 Ratings

The Police Officer's Wife

Die Frau des Polizisten

Directed by Philip Gröning

Germany, 2013

Drama

175

Synopsis

A young couple lead a modest provincial existence with their small daughter. This beautiful, seemingly ordinary family live a frugal life of simple joys. It is also a life of increasing violence measured by the dark bruises of the police officer’s wife.

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The Police Officer's Wife Directed by Philip Gröning

Awards & Festivals

Venice Film Festival

2013 | Winner: Special Jury Prize

Berlin International Film Festival

2014

Toronto International Film Festival

2013

International Film Festival Rotterdam

2014

Cast & Crew

What are people saying?

Nadin's rating of the film The Police Officer's Wife
Nadin

A powerful portrayal of domestic violence, which focuses mainly on what is absent from the eye. Gröning's new film is maddening and unforgettable. More about it on my website: http://tinyurl.com/np77w7l
October 01, 2014 15:51
- 3
- 0
Slow Immersion [Joe]'s rating of the film The Police Officer's Wife
Slow Immersion [Joe]

Formally quite a nice idea, and very well shot, but thematically, extremely tiresome and uninteresting.
March 25, 2016 22:14
- 2
- 0
Maribou's rating of the film The Police Officer's Wife
Maribou

Intelligent film with something to say about a marriage deteriorating into abuse & an environment that supports that. However, the pacing is infuriatingly protracted: trivial events are dragged out in near-real time as we're counted through endless stop-start chapters charting the unravelling relationship. By the denouement I had long stopped caring about the protagonists & wished the whole thing was over
July 08, 2017 16:43
- 0
- 0
OldGermanCurrency's rating of the film The Police Officer's Wife
OldGermanCurrency

3,5 - Colours, out of focus, details, bodies, light and darkness.
December 25, 2016 23:17
- 0
- 0
Bonnet Michel's rating of the film The Police Officer's Wife
Bonnet Michel

..2016 ARTE
March 14, 2016 12:57
- 0
- 0
L'immoralistee's rating of the film The Police Officer's Wife
L'immoralistee

4,5
November 07, 2015 12:38
- 2
- 0
Francesco Tonelli's rating of the film The Police Officer's Wife
Francesco Tonelli

Extreme, in every sense. It will make you feel terrible, for three long hours.
July 19, 2014 16:59
- 3
- 0
larsmars's rating of the film The Police Officer's Wife
larsmars

This movie made me so angry! I had to beat my girlfriend to blow off steam. Did anyone get the part with the enlarged bath?
October 06, 2013 21:41
- 1
- 3

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