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.
- Billy Wilder
- C.C. Coleman
- Harry Hogan
- Gerd Oswald
- Charles Brackett
- Robert Harari
- Richard L. Breen
- Billy Wilder
- David Shaw
Rating: 7/10 by 141 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
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.
