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Rating: 7.038/10 by 144 users

A Foreign Affair (1948)

In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.

Directing:
  • Billy Wilder
  • C.C. Coleman
  • Harry Hogan
  • Gerd Oswald
Writing:
  • Charles Brackett
  • Robert Harari
  • Richard L. Breen
  • Billy Wilder
  • David Shaw
Stars:
Release Date: Fri, Aug 20, 1948

Rating: 7.038/10 by 144 users

Alternative Title:
La mundana - AR
Чуждeстранна афера - BG
Det hændte i Berlin - DK
Berliinin raunioiden keskellä - FI
Floga kai pathos - GR
Külügyi szívügyek - HU
Een avontuur in Berlijn - NL
Moralens vokter - NO
Sprawa zagraniczna - PL
A Sua Melhor Missão - PT
Scandal international - RO
Ljubezen na tujem - SI
Günahsiz melek - TR
Escándalo internacional - VE
いこくのできごと - JP

Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Deutsch
Runtime: 01 hour 56 minutes
Budget: $1,500,000
Revenue: $0

Plot Keyword: berlin, germany, nazi, black market, moral ambiguity, politician, man between two women, post war germany, singer, post world war ii, ex-nazi, military, foreign occupation, nightclub performer, committee, city ruin, morals, romantic triangle, secret investigation, blonde bombshell, moral policing, congresswoman, american officer, bombed building, american occupation, post-war, conservative values

Jean Arthur
Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
Marlene Dietrich
Erika Von Schlüetow
John Lund
Captain John Pringle
Millard Mitchell
Col. Rufus J. Plummer
Peter von Zerneck
Hans Otto Birgel
Gordon Jones
Military Police
Freddie Steele
Military Police
James Larmore
Lieutenant Hornby
Damian O'Flynn
Lieutenant Colonel
Frank Fenton
Major Mathews
Harland Tucker
General McAndrew
George M. Carleton
General Finney
Nick Abramoff
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Ted Cottle
Gerhardt Maier (uncredited)
Zina Dennis
Russian (uncredited)
Jimmie Dundee
American M.P. (uncredited)
Lisa Golm
German (uncredited)
Leo Gregory
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Ilka Grüning
German Wife (uncredited)
Vilmos Gymes
Waiter (uncredited)
Chester Hayes
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Hans Herbert
Waiter (uncredited)
Len Hendry
Staff Sergeant (uncredited)
Friedrich Hollaender
Piano Player at The Lorelei (uncredited)
Jerry James
Lieutenant (uncredited)
Howard Joslin
M.P. (uncredited)
George Kachin
Russian Officer (uncredited)
Willy Kaufman
Waiter (uncredited)
Phyllis Kennedy
WAC Technical Sergeant (uncredited)
Henry Kulky
Russian Sergeant (uncredited)
Harry Lauter
Corporal (uncredited)
Rex Lease
M.P. Lieutenant (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt
Non-Commissioned Officer (uncredited)
Paul Lees
G.I. (uncredited)
Kenneth Lundy
G.I. (uncredited)
Don Lynch
G.I. (uncredited)
Gregory Merims
Russian Officer (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Transport Pilot (uncredited)
Hazard Newberry
Lieutenant (uncredited)
Larry Nunn
Sergeant (uncredited)
Paul Panzer
German Husband (uncredited)
George Paris
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Frank Popovich
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Otto Reichow
German Policeman (uncredited)
Albin Robeling
Cook (uncredited)
Richard Ryen
Maier (uncredited)
William Sabbot
Russian Dancer (uncredited)
William Self
G.I. (uncredited)
Pat Shade
G.I. (uncredited)
John Shay
G.I. (uncredited)
William F. Sheehan
M.P. (uncredited)
Peter Similuk
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Bob Simpson
Major (uncredited)
Zivko Simunovich
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
The Lorelei Patron (uncredited)
Walter Thiele
German (uncredited)
George Unanoff
Russian Officer (uncredited)
Edward Van Sloan
German (uncredited)
Jack Vlaskin
Russian Dancer (uncredited)
Sergei N. Vonesky
Russian Officer (uncredited)
Henry Vroom
American Sergeant (uncredited)
Otto Waldis
Inspector (uncredited)
Fay Wall
Fräulein (uncredited)
Christa Walton
Fräulein (uncredited)
Bobby Watson
Hitler (uncredited)
Eric Wyland
German Waiter (uncredited)
Frank Yaconelli
Accordion Player (uncredited)
Nicholas L. Zane
Russian Officer (uncredited)

CinemaSerf

Billy Wilder pulls together a great script and two engaging performances from Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich in this entertaining story of a US Congresswoman who visits post-war Berlin to check up on the morals of the American troops. She falls for one of them who just happens to be already spoken for. There ensues a bit of a tug-of-war between the two women over the rather charmless John Lund. Millard Mitchell is good value as the war-weary colonel; there are enough Dietrich songs to keep her fans content and we even get a twist at the end. There may well have been some murmurings Stateside once this film was released. It doesn't exactly show the Yanks in a great light as they party and black-market their way through a bomb wrecked Berlin but it does demonstrate the need for a "release" for so many from the years of war and deprivation with style and occasionally, some humour.


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