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A hauntingly beautiful new film from Alexander Sokurov, director of Russian Ark and Mother and Son, about an elderly woman who comes to see her grandson, a young officer at a remote military base. Alexandra was picked as one of the ten best films of 2008 by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times.

Narrowly escaping her volatile ex-husband, Yella flees her small hometown in former East Germany for a new life in the West. She finds a promising job with Philipp, a handsome business executive with whom an unlikely romance soon blossoms. But just as Yella seems poised to realize her dreams, she finds herself haunted by buried truths that threaten to destroy hernewfound happiness.