
Christian Petzold In Person
March 16–21
Ahead of the release of his latest film, Miroirs No. 3, FLC presents a seven-film showcase of the renowned German director’s signature works, with Petzold in person at select screenings.
Christian Petzold
2025|
Germany|
86 minutes|
German with English subtitles
Christian Petzold’s (Transit, NYFF56) haunting, beautifully crafted new film stars Paula Beer as a pianist from Berlin who’s taken in by a mysterious woman in an isolated country house after surviving a violent car crash.
Christian Petzold
2018|
Germany / France|
101 minutes|
French and German with English subtitles
Franz Rogowski stars in Christian Petzold’s haunting film as a European refugee who has escaped from two concentration camps and assumes the identity of a dead novelist whose papers he is carrying.
Christian Petzold
2000|
Germany|
106 minutes|
German and Portuguese with English subtitles
Christian Petzold’s breakout film finds a pair of former far-left militants—on the run since the 1970s—posing as a bourgeois European couple on vacation with their rebellious teenage daughter, who’s hungering for a normal life.
Christian Petzold
2012|
Germany|
105 minutes|
German with English subtitles
Set in 1980, the first chapter of Christian Petzold’s “Love in Times of Oppressive Systems” trilogy centers around a doctor (Nina Hoss) exiled to a small town from East Berlin as punishment for applying for an exit visa.
Christian Petzold
2001|
Germany|
90 minutes|
German with English subtitles
The first of Christian Petzold’s many collaborations with actress Nina Hoss reshapes Hitchcock’s classic Vertigo around an attraction between a reserved attorney and a mysterious woman who’s new in town.
Ticket Information
Tickets for retrospective titles (excluding Miroirs No. 3) are $18; $15 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $13 for FLC Members. See more retrospective titles and save with a 3+ Film Package ($16 for GP; $13 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $11 for FLC Members.).
About the Series
At once intricately engaged with the real world and steeped in film history, the films of Christian Petzold radically reimagine such genres as film noir, thriller, melodrama, and the spy drama, offering narrative mysteries, enigmatic protagonists immersed in even more enigmatic circumstances, an incomparable sense of atmosphere and style, and surprising links between Germany’s turbulent past and its fragile present. On the occasion of the release of his hauntingly beautiful new film Miroirs No. 3 on March 20, FLC is delighted to welcome Petzold back to present a selection of his enduringly rich previous works alongside his remarkable latest.
Organized by Florence Almozini, Vice President of Programming, Film at Lincoln Center and Dan Sullivan, Programmer, Film at Lincoln Center. Special thanks to Sara Stevenson, Goethe-Institut/German Film Office; and Tim Grady, Adopt Films.
If we want to move on, first we have to remember.”
—Christian Petzold















