Eine Liebe in Deutschland (1983)
- Starring:
- Hanna Schygulla, Marie-Christine Barrault, (more)
- Director(s):
- Andrzej Wajda
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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 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, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Hanna Schygulla - Paulina Kropp
- Armin Mueller-Stahl - Mayer
- Daniel Olbrychski - Wiktorczyk
- Gerard Desarthe - Karl Wyler
- Ralf Wolter - Schultze
- Ben Becker - Klaus
- Dorothea Moritz - Martha
- Rainer Basedow - Stackmann's Son
- Ellen Esser - Prison Guard
- Ilse Bahrs - Old Schnittgens
- Serge Merlin - Alker
- Gert Holtenau - Chief Physician
- Erika Wackernagel - Frau Melchior
- Marie-Christine Barrault - Maria Wyler
- Elisabeth Trissenaar - Elsbeth Schnittgens
- Piotr Lysak - Stanislaw Zasada
- Bernhard Wicki - Dr. Borg
- Otto Sander - The Narrator
- Sigfrit Steiner - Melchior
- Friedrich Georg Beckhaus - Zinngruber the Mayor
- Hannes Kaetner - Klages
- Gernot Duda - Stackmann
- Herbert Weissbach - Pharmacist
- Dietrich Mattausch - Counsel
- Jutta Kloppel - Stepdaughter
- Dieter Kirchlechner - Mari De Paulina
- Director(s):
- Andrzej Wajda
- Writer(s):
- Boleslaw Michalek, Agnieszka Holland, Andrzej Wajda
- Producer(s):
- Arthur Brauner
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