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A Love in Germany

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A German woman (Hanna Schygulla) has an affair with a World War II Polish POW (Piotr Lysak).
A Love in Germany

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Critics Consensus

Hanna Schygulla's thoroughly compelling performance isn't quite enough to outweigh A Love in Germany's leaden execution -- but it comes close.

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Rita Kempley Washington Post 03/24/2020
While you know it's all going to turn out rather badly, you can't help but be seduced by star Hanna Schygulla. Go to Full Review Jill Forbes Sight & Sound 03/24/2020
Though A Love in Germany may well be about 'ordinary' fascism it fails to measure up to the competition of Germany, Pale Mother and others of that kind. Go to Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times 03/24/2020
[Schygulla] gives what must be called a triumphant performance, one that ranks with the best of her work with Fassbinder, in a film that must be the most romantic ever made by Mr. Wajda. Go to Full Review Gregory Solman Boston Phoenix 10/08/2021
Wajda's lovers are arrogantly inarticulate, neither beautiful nor expressive. And their relationship is completely tangential to the findings of his modern investigators. Go to Full Review Michael Lasky Bay Area Reporter 05/07/2020
A Love In Germany is a provocative film which captures the ruthlessness of propaganda and the ease with which it can sway people's minds and create an inhumane tyranny of the human spirit. Go to Full Review Susan Shapiro Sojourner 03/24/2020
Hanna Shygulla's "great passion" for her Polish prisoner-of-war lover in Nazi Germany is totally unbelievable. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Andrzej Wajda

Director

Hanna Schygulla

Paulina Kropp

Piotr Lysak

Stanislaus

Marie-Christine Barrault

Maria Wyler

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Mayer

Elisabeth Trissenaar

Elsbeth Schnittgens
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Movie Info

Synopsis A German woman (Hanna Schygulla) has an affair with a World War II Polish POW (Piotr Lysak).
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Producer
Artur Brauner
Screenwriter
Andrzej Wajda, Boleslaw Michalek, Agnieszka Holland
Production Co
C.C.C. Filmkunst, Gaumont, Stand'art Productions, TF1 Films Production
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Runtime
1h 47m