Wajda's lovers are arrogantly inarticulate, neither beautiful nor expressive. And their relationship is completely tangential to the findings of his modern investigators.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2021

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.

Full Review | May 7, 2020

While you know it's all going to turn out rather badly, you can't help but be seduced by star Hanna Schygulla.

Full Review | Mar 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.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

Hanna Shygulla's "great passion" for her Polish prisoner-of-war lover in Nazi Germany is totally unbelievable.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

A Love in Germany is Wajda's penetrating commentary on the toll paid by individuals in any country that tries to dictate private morality.

Full Review | Mar 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.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

The sheer accumulation of contextual detail overwhelms and diminishes the narrative of amour foil at the film's centre.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

A Love in Germany is a maudlin mess of a movie that infuriates when it should fascinate, an artless attempt at high drama and political relevance that stumbles and fails at every turn.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

Why great directors occasionally deliver an outrageous clunker is anyone's guess, but here's another one for the books -- A Love in Germany, Andrzej Wajda's meditation on the banality of evil, with the emphasis on banality.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

Stani is passive, bland and maddeningly apolitical, and Paulina, reckless with erotic desire, is too cool to show heartfelt emotion.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

The grim inevitability of the tragedy, which someone like Fassbinder might have enlightened with another of his lessons on "everyday fascism," is treated with a heavier, less convincing hand by Wajda.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

Directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda with a rather heavy touch leavened by strokes of nightmarish humor.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

A Love in Germany reveals Schygulla as a superb, fearless actress and an international star ready to take Hollywood.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

For all its faults the film remains important as well as emotionally sensitive in its view of people who submit easily to oppression.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2020

If the film wants to paint Paulina and Stani as two truly noble souls and make their mutual fate serve as an indictment of Nazidom`s utmost evil, shouldn't they have something more going for them than a simple desire to hit the sheets?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 21, 2019

Alongside Schygulla's aching gravity, Mueller-Stahl weighs in a tremendous performance as the perplexed and irritable Gestapo chief.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2005

Wajda, who has turned out some of cinema's most provocative political statements, does so again here. The politics tend to obscure the love story, but this is undoubtedly what Wajda intended.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2004

Affirms the power of love in the face of death.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2004