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A Love in Germany

Drama

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.

Date: 10/26/1983

Rating: 4.9

Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Piotr Łysak, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ralf Wolter, Daniel Olbrychski, Bernhard Wicki, Gérard Desarthe, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Sigfrit Steiner, Erika Wackernagel, Ben Becker, Otto Sander, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Gernot Duda, Serge Merlin, Thomas Ringelmann, Heidi Joschko, Ilse Bahrs, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jürgen Born, Dieter Kursawe, Ellen Esser, Christoph Beyertt, Evelyn Meyka, Herbert Weißbach, Gudrun Geier, Rainer Basedow, Ulrich Heimann, Gerd Holtenau, Hannes Kaetner, Dieter Kirchlechner, Jutta Klöppel, André Mantz, Dietrich Mattausch, Dorothea Moritz, Bernhard Papke, Gundula Petrovska, Jürgen von Alten

Hanna Schygulla