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A Love in Germany

R 1983 1h 47m Drama List
55% Tomatometer 22 Reviews 67% Popcornmeter 50+ Ratings
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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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 While you know it's all going to turn out rather badly, you can't help but be seduced by star Hanna Schygulla. Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Jill Forbes Sight & Sound 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. Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times [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. Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Gregory Solman Boston Phoenix Wajda's lovers are arrogantly inarticulate, neither beautiful nor expressive. And their relationship is completely tangential to the findings of his modern investigators. Oct 8, 2021 Full Review Michael Lasky Bay Area Reporter 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. May 7, 2020 Full Review Susan Shapiro Sojourner Hanna Shygulla's "great passion" for her Polish prisoner-of-war lover in Nazi Germany is totally unbelievable. Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Hanna Schygulla, is involved Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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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, Stand'art Productions, TF1 Films Production, Gaumont
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Runtime
1h 47m