The psychological horror drama follows a perplexed teacher who holds a young photographer captive after a night of romance.
19 August 1977, Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
3 June 1982, Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
3 March 1978, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2 February 2000, Berlin, Germany
26 February 1986, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
12 January 1940, Danzig, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]
7 January 1984, Berlin, Germany
12 March 1998, Monheim am Rhein, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany
May 26, 2017
A thriller whose genre moves are as precise as its underlying swirl of emotions are enigmatic.May 25, 2017
The movie identifies Ms. Shortland as a talent to watch. And it should constitute some kind of breakthrough for Ms. Palmer, who has not been given much of interest to do since she arrived in Hollywood a little over a decade ago.May 25, 2017
Berlin Syndrome might look on the surface like a polished B-movie, a crafty and violent tale of a woman in captivity; but it's also the rare psychological thriller that feels not just taut and gripping, but genuinely exploratory.May 26, 2017
Australian director Cate Shortland creates a dreamlike sense of place within a nightmare scenario with this taut and strongly acted thriller.May 25, 2017
We start to feel like we're drowning in atmosphere, and it gets harder and harder to stay interested in what happens next.May 25, 2017
Berlin Syndrome is a discomforting psychological thriller. It's discomforting in an effective way ... As for the psychology, it skimps perhaps a bit too much.May 24, 2017
Works against all odds, managing to preserve the sickness of the situation while remaining attentive to the needs of suspense and depths of sophisticated characterization.May 26, 2017
This stylish cautionary tale about foreigners in strange lands manages to generate consistent suspense within an intriguing moral framework while avoiding genre pitfalls.May 26, 2017
The end is a bit anticlimactic, but that's a quibble considering Shortland achieves something rare: making a thriller feel fresh.May 24, 2017
It's a tolerable exercise that shows Shortland's potentialities in a genre she's probing for the very first time.May 26, 2017
A nasty piece of business tarted up with a stylish, high-gloss veneer.May 25, 2017
Telling the story of a psychopath and his sex-slave, the film balances the clinical and visceral.