Undine (Paula Beer) works in Berlin as a historian and guide to the city's development. But underneath the appearance of her modern city life lurks an old myth: if the man Undine loves betrays her, she has to kill him and return to the water she once came from. So when her lover Johannes (Jacob Matschenz) leaves her for another woman, she thinks she has no choice - until in the moment of betrayal she meets Christoph (Franz Rogowski), an industrial diver, and unexpectedly falls for him.
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Lauren Coates, Staff Writer|June 6, 2021
Just over a year after the film had its world premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival, Christian Petzold’s tragic romance “Undine” is finally available for streaming in the United States – and at the risk of being dramatic, if there’s one romance film you’re going to watch in 2021, make it this one. A modern reimagining of the European myth Undine (also spelled Ondine), the film reinterprets the story of a water nymph who is doomed to kill the man she loves if he’s unfaithful to her – a largely influential myth whose influence can be traced all the way through modern classics like Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”.
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