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A Foreign Affair is a 1948 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, and John Lund. The screenplay by Charles Brackett, Wilder, and Richard L. Breen is based on a story by David Shaw adapted by Robert Harari.
A Foreign Affair: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell. In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
In a wrecked post-war Berlin, a congressional committee from the United States of America comes to the occupied city to investigate the moral of the American troops. The conservative republican Congresswoman Phoebe Frost from Iowa brings a birthday cake to Captain John Pringle from his girlfriend also from Iowa.
Marlene Dietrich is a cabaret singer rumored to have been a mistress of one of the top Nazis, and now carrying on an affair with an American officer (John Lund).
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A party of Congressional representatives – led by Jean Arthur’s repressed Phoebe Frost, hair tied back severely and a demeanour to match her name – have come to the American sector of the divided city on a fact-finding mission.
Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund. Certificate: U. by Sarah Morgan. Just when you think you’ve seen all of Billy Wilder’s best movies, a previously unseen one pops up to entertain and delight in equal measure.
A classic of post-war and early Cold War cinema, Billy Wilder showcases a decimated Berlin in this genre-bender starring Marlene Dietrich. Nominated for screenwriting Oscar, the film remarkably finds comedy and love in the ruins, but never fails to take a grave look at Allied-occupied Germany.
