A Eine Liebe in Deutschland (A Love in Germany) (1983)
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29% of users liked it
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Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and forbidden love affair between Stanislaw, a Polish POW (Piotr Lysak) and Paulina (Hanna Schygulla) a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in a small town in Germany along the border with… More Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and forbidden love affair between Stanislaw, a Polish POW (Piotr Lysak) and Paulina (Hanna Schygulla) a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in a small town in Germany along the border with Switzerland. Their affair would have gone undetected except for the busybody women of the village, and when Stanislaw is picked up by a German stormtrooper (Armin Müller-Stahl) and brought in for a mock trial, he is given a chance to prove his racial purity and so perhaps escape execution. As for Paulina, she is ostracized by the villagers and imprisoned for consorting with someone who was not of the same high Aryan caste as herself. Depressing, yet politically relevant to Poland of the early 1980s, this film by acclaimed director Andrzej Wajda) is an effective and emotional statement on the nature of oppression. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Directed By
- Andrzej Wajda
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Sep 7, 1983 Wide
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Affirms the power of love in the face of death.
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Cast
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Hanna Schygulla
as Paulina Kropp
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Marie-Christine Barrault
as Maria Wyler
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Armin Mueller-Stahl
as Mayer
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Elisabeth Trissenaar
as Elsbeth Schnittgens
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Daniel Olbrychski
as Wiktorczyk
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Piotr Lysak
as Stanislaw Zasada
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Gérard Desarthe
as Karl Wyler
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Bernhard Wicki
as Dr. Borg
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Ralf Wolter
as Schultze
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Otto Sander
as The Narrator
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Ben Becker
as Klaus
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Sigfrit Steiner
as Melchior
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Dorothea Moritz
as Martha
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Friedrich Georg Beckhaus
as Zinngruber the Mayor
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Dieter Kirchlechner
as Mari De Paulina
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Dietrich Mattausch
as Counsel
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Serge Merlin
as Alker
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Erika Wackernagel
as Frau Melchior
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Gert Holtenau
as Chief Physician
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Jutta Kloppel
as Stepdaughter
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Herbert Weissbach
as Pharmacist
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Ilse Bahrs
as Old Schnittgens
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Gernot Duda
as Stackmann
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Ellen Esser
as Prison Guard
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Hannes Kaetner
as Klages
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Rainer Basedow
as Stackmann's Son
